Catalin George Festila: Python Qt5 - simple draw with QPainter.

Using the QPainter is more complex than a simple example.
I try to create a simple example in order to have a good look at how can be used.
The main goal was to understand how can have the basic elements of QPainter.
The result of my example is this:

Here is my example with all commented lines for a good approach:

import sys 
from PyQt5 import QtGui, QtWidgets 
from PyQt5.QtGui import QPainter, QBrush, QColor
from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt, QPoint 
class My_QPainter(QtWidgets.QWidget): 
    def paintEvent(self, event): 
        # create custom QPainter
        my_painter = QtGui.QPainter() 
        # start and set my_painter
        my_painter.begin(self) 
        my_painter.setRenderHint(my_painter.TextAntialiasing, True)
        my_painter.setRenderHint(my_painter.Antialiasing, True)
        #set color for pen by RGB
        my_painter.setPen(QtGui.QColor(0,0,255)) 
        # draw a text on fixed coordinates
        my_painter.drawText(220,100, "Text at 220, 100 fixed coordinates") 
        # draw a text in the centre of my_painter   
        my_painter.drawText(event.rect(), Qt.AlignCenter, "Text centerd in the drawing area") 
        #set color for pen by Qt color  
        my_painter.setPen(QtGui.QPen(Qt.green, 1)) 
        # draw a ellipse
        my_painter.drawEllipse(QPoint(100,100),60,60) 
        # set color for pen by property
        my_painter.setPen(QtGui.QPen(Qt.blue, 3, join = Qt.MiterJoin)) 
        # draw a rectangle
        my_painter.drawRect(80,160,100,100) 
        # set color for pen by Qt color 
        my_painter.setPen(QtGui.QPen(Qt.red, 2))
        # set brush 
        my_brush = QBrush(QColor(33, 33, 100, 255), Qt.DiagCrossPattern)
        my_painter.setBrush(my_brush)
        # draw a rectangle and fill with the brush 
        my_painter.drawRect(300, 300,180, 180)
        my_painter.end() 
# create application  
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv) 
# create the window application from class
window = My_QPainter() 
# show the window
window.show() 
# default exit 
sys.exit(app.exec_())

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