There are a couple ways to do this, but most of all I would recommend maybe not fighting against the layout system by trying to hint the aspect. As you can see, you are having to try and implement a number methods trying to help the layout.
I can offer two examples. Neither of them use layouts...
The first uses a child QLabel
to show the image, and drives its fixed size off of the resize event:
// imagelabel.h
class ImageLabel : public QWidget
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
explicit ImageLabel(QWidget *parent = 0);
const QPixmap* pixmap() const;
public slots:
void setPixmap(const QPixmap&);
protected:
void resizeEvent(QResizeEvent *);
private slots:
void resizeImage();
private:
QLabel *label;
};
// imagelabel.cpp
ImageLabel::ImageLabel(QWidget *parent) :
QWidget(parent)
{
label = new QLabel(this);
label->setScaledContents(true);
label->setFixedSize(0,0);
}
void ImageLabel::resizeEvent(QResizeEvent *event) {
QWidget::resizeEvent(event);
resizeImage();
}
const QPixmap* ImageLabel::pixmap() const {
return label->pixmap();
}
void ImageLabel::setPixmap (const QPixmap &pixmap){
label->setPixmap(pixmap);
resizeImage();
}
void ImageLabel::resizeImage() {
QSize pixSize = label->pixmap()->size();
pixSize.scale(size(), Qt::KeepAspectRatio);
label->setFixedSize(pixSize);
}
The second example is based off of the answer given by @Arnold_Spence. It is even shorter as it doesn't use a child QLabel. It just draws the pixmap in the paint event:
// imagelabel2.h
class ImageLabel2 : public QWidget
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
explicit ImageLabel2(QWidget *parent = 0);
const QPixmap* pixmap() const;
public slots:
void setPixmap(const QPixmap&);
protected:
void paintEvent(QPaintEvent *);
private:
QPixmap pix;
};
// imagelabel2.cpp
ImageLabel2::ImageLabel2(QWidget *parent) :
QWidget(parent)
{
}
void ImageLabel2::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *event) {
QWidget::paintEvent(event);
if (pix.isNull())
return;
QPainter painter(this);
painter.setRenderHint(QPainter::Antialiasing);
QSize pixSize = pix.size();
pixSize.scale(event->rect().size(), Qt::KeepAspectRatio);
QPixmap scaledPix = pix.scaled(pixSize,
Qt::KeepAspectRatio,
Qt::SmoothTransformation
);
painter.drawPixmap(QPoint(), scaledPix);
}
const QPixmap* ImageLabel2::pixmap() const {
return &pix;
}
void ImageLabel2::setPixmap (const QPixmap &pixmap){
pix = pixmap;
}