Zoom Line Example

The example shows how to create your own custom zooming effect with QRubberBand by using a mouse and how to use touch gestures for paning and zooming.

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Customizing Zooming Effects

Let's first create a line series with some example data.

     QLineSeries *series = new QLineSeries();
     for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++) {
         QPointF p((qreal) i, qSin(M_PI / 50 * i) * 100);
         p.ry() += QRandomGenerator::global()->bounded(20);
         *series << p;
     }

Then we create a custom chart view by deriving from QChartView:

 class ChartView : public QChartView

We override mouse and key event handling

 protected:
     bool viewportEvent(QEvent *event);
     void mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent *event);
     void mouseMoveEvent(QMouseEvent *event);
     void mouseReleaseEvent(QMouseEvent *event);
     void keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent *event);

Then we implement a custom logic for mouse and key events. For example pressing the '+' key will zoom in and pressing the '-' key will zoom out.

 void ChartView::keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent *event)
 {
     switch (event->key()) {
     case Qt::Key_Plus:
         chart()->zoomIn();
         break;
     case Qt::Key_Minus:
         chart()->zoomOut();
         break;

We also create our own QChart:

 class Chart : public QChart

Where we can handle the gestures:

 bool Chart::sceneEvent(QEvent *event)
 {
     if (event->type() == QEvent::Gesture)
         return gestureEvent(static_cast<QGestureEvent *>(event));
     return QChart::event(event);
 }

 bool Chart::gestureEvent(QGestureEvent *event)
 {
     if (QGesture *gesture = event->gesture(Qt::PanGesture)) {
         QPanGesture *pan = static_cast<QPanGesture *>(gesture);
         QChart::scroll(-(pan->delta().x()), pan->delta().y());
     }

     if (QGesture *gesture = event->gesture(Qt::PinchGesture)) {
         QPinchGesture *pinch = static_cast<QPinchGesture *>(gesture);
         if (pinch->changeFlags() & QPinchGesture::ScaleFactorChanged)
             QChart::zoom(pinch->scaleFactor());
     }

     return true;
 }

Note that you will need to call grabGesture() to both QMainWindow and QChart.

Example project @ code.qt.io