Qwt User's Guide  6.2.0
QwtRasterData Class Referenceabstract

QwtRasterData defines an interface to any type of raster data. More...

#include <qwt_raster_data.h>

Inheritance diagram for QwtRasterData:

Public Types

enum  Attribute { WithoutGaps = 0x01 }
 Raster data attributes. More...
 
enum  ConrecFlag { IgnoreAllVerticesOnLevel = 0x01 , IgnoreOutOfRange = 0x02 }
 Flags to modify the contour algorithm. More...
 
typedef QMap< double, QPolygonF > ContourLines
 Contour lines.
 
typedef QFlags< AttributeAttributes
 
typedef QFlags< ConrecFlagConrecFlags
 

Public Member Functions

 QwtRasterData ()
 Constructor.
 
virtual ~QwtRasterData ()
 Destructor.
 
void setAttribute (Attribute, bool on=true)
 
bool testAttribute (Attribute) const
 
virtual QwtInterval interval (Qt::Axis) const =0
 
virtual QRectF pixelHint (const QRectF &) const
 Pixel hint. More...
 
virtual void initRaster (const QRectF &, const QSize &raster)
 Initialize a raster. More...
 
virtual void discardRaster ()
 Discard a raster. More...
 
virtual double value (double x, double y) const =0
 
virtual ContourLines contourLines (const QRectF &rect, const QSize &raster, const QList< double > &levels, ConrecFlags) const
 

Detailed Description

QwtRasterData defines an interface to any type of raster data.

QwtRasterData is an abstract interface, that is used by QwtPlotRasterItem to find the values at the pixels of its raster.

Gaps inside the bounding rectangle of the data can be indicated by NaN values ( when WithoutGaps is disabled ).

Often a raster item is used to display values from a matrix. Then the derived raster data class needs to implement some sort of resampling, that maps the raster of the matrix into the requested raster of the raster item ( depending on resolution and scales of the canvas ).

QwtMatrixRasterData implements raster data, that returns values from a given 2D matrix.

See also
QwtMatrixRasterData

Definition at line 42 of file qwt_raster_data.h.

Member Typedef Documentation

◆ Attributes

An ORed combination of Attribute values.

Definition at line 74 of file qwt_raster_data.h.

◆ ConrecFlags

An ORed combination of ConrecFlag values.

Definition at line 86 of file qwt_raster_data.h.

Member Enumeration Documentation

◆ Attribute

Raster data attributes.

Additional information that is used to improve processing of the data.

Enumerator
WithoutGaps 

The bounding rectangle of the data is spanned by the interval(Qt::XAxis) and interval(Qt::YAxis).

WithoutGaps indicates, that the data has no gaps ( unknown values ) in this area and the result of value() does not need to be checked for NaN values.

Enabling this flag will have an positive effect on the performance of rendering a QwtPlotSpectrogram.

The default setting is false.

Note
NaN values indicate an undefined value

Definition at line 54 of file qwt_raster_data.h.

◆ ConrecFlag

Flags to modify the contour algorithm.

Enumerator
IgnoreAllVerticesOnLevel 

Ignore all vertices on the same level.

IgnoreOutOfRange 

Ignore all values, that are out of range.

Definition at line 77 of file qwt_raster_data.h.

Member Function Documentation

◆ contourLines()

QwtRasterData::ContourLines QwtRasterData::contourLines ( const QRectF &  rect,
const QSize &  raster,
const QList< double > &  levels,
ConrecFlags  flags 
) const
virtual

Calculate contour lines

Parameters
rectBounding rectangle for the contour lines
rasterNumber of data pixels of the raster data
levelsList of limits, where to insert contour lines
flagsFlags to customize the contouring algorithm
Returns
Calculated contour lines

An adaption of CONREC, a simple contouring algorithm. http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/papers/conrec/

Definition at line 286 of file qwt_raster_data.cpp.

◆ discardRaster()

void QwtRasterData::discardRaster ( )
virtual

Discard a raster.

After the composition of an image QwtPlotSpectrogram calls discardRaster().

The default implementation does nothing, but if data has been loaded in initRaster(), it could deleted now.

See also
initRaster(), value()

Definition at line 237 of file qwt_raster_data.cpp.

◆ initRaster()

void QwtRasterData::initRaster ( const QRectF &  area,
const QSize &  raster 
)
virtual

Initialize a raster.

Before the composition of an image QwtPlotSpectrogram calls initRaster(), announcing the area and its resolution that will be requested.

The default implementation does nothing, but for data sets that are stored in files, it might be good idea to reimplement initRaster(), where the data is resampled and loaded into memory.

Parameters
areaArea of the raster
rasterNumber of horizontal and vertical pixels
See also
initRaster(), value()

Definition at line 221 of file qwt_raster_data.cpp.

◆ interval()

virtual QwtInterval QwtRasterData::interval ( Qt::Axis  ) const
pure virtual
Returns
Bounding interval for an axis
See also
setInterval

Implemented in QwtMatrixRasterData.

◆ pixelHint()

QRectF QwtRasterData::pixelHint ( const QRectF &  area) const
virtual

Pixel hint.

pixelHint() returns the geometry of a pixel, that can be used to calculate the resolution and alignment of the plot item, that is representing the data.

Width and height of the hint need to be the horizontal and vertical distances between 2 neighbored points. The center of the hint has to be the position of any point ( it doesn't matter which one ).

An empty hint indicates, that there are values for any detail level.

Limiting the resolution of the image might significantly improve the performance and heavily reduce the amount of memory when rendering a QImage from the raster data.

The default implementation returns an empty rectangle recommending to render in target device ( f.e. screen ) resolution.

Parameters
areaIn most implementations the resolution of the data doesn't depend on the requested area.
Returns
Bounding rectangle of a pixel

Reimplemented in QwtMatrixRasterData.

Definition at line 267 of file qwt_raster_data.cpp.

◆ setAttribute()

void QwtRasterData::setAttribute ( Attribute  attribute,
bool  on = true 
)

Specify an attribute of the data

Parameters
attributeAttribute
onOn/Off /sa Attribute, testAttribute()

Definition at line 189 of file qwt_raster_data.cpp.

◆ testAttribute()

bool QwtRasterData::testAttribute ( Attribute  attribute) const
Returns
True, when attribute is enabled
See also
Attribute, setAttribute()

Definition at line 201 of file qwt_raster_data.cpp.

◆ value()

virtual double QwtRasterData::value ( double  x,
double  y 
) const
pure virtual
Returns
the value at a raster position
Parameters
xX value in plot coordinates
yY value in plot coordinates

Implemented in QwtMatrixRasterData.