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Asked: 2026-05-31T15:57:06+00:00

I use a QPainter to draw my widget with this code: QPen pen(Qt::black, 0.6,

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I use a QPainter to draw my widget with this code:

QPen pen(Qt::black, 0.6, Qt::SolidLine);
QPainter painter(this);
painter.setPen(pen);

// vertical 
painter.drawLine(startX,0,startX,50);
painter.drawLine((startX += grid),0,startX,50);
painter.drawLine((startX += grid),0,startX,50);
painter.drawLine((startX += grid),0,startX,50);
painter.drawLine((startX += grid),0,startX,50);
painter.drawLine((startX += grid),0,startX,50);

// horizontal 
pen.setWidth(0.7);
painter.setPen(pen);
painter.drawLine(0,grid*2,70,grid*2);
painter.drawLine(0,grid*4,70,grid*4);
painter.drawLine(0,grid*6,70,grid*6);
painter.drawLine(0,grid*8,70,grid*8);

When I add this item into a QGraphicsScene, the width of the lines sometimes look different from each other, especially when I zoom in. Can anyone explain why this is happening and what can be done to fix it?

This screen shot demonstrates the problem:

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is a side effect of floating point rounding and scene interpolation/rendering. At most zoom levels, there will not be a perfect one-to-one match from scene pixels to view pixels. This is especially true for fractional pen widths. You can make things look a bit smoother by turning on anti-aliasing in your QGraphicsView:

    ...
view.setRenderHints(QPainter::Antialiasing | QPainter::SmoothPixmapTransform);
....

    There are other rendering hints that can be passed in as well.

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