Hi Tomi,
I'm sure there are many things that could be improved in both doc and
code here, but let me try to explain how this was intended at least
could you please explain how your method "QRect::contains(const QRect
&r, bool proper)" at
https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/src/corelib/tools/qrect.cpp?h=dev
This becomes much easier to understand if one remembers QRect is
designed to describe a pixel area. Its coordinates are pixel rows and
columns. QRectF, on the other hand, is designed for (pseudo)cartesian
coordinates.
So e.g. a QRect(0, 0, 3, 3) has top-left at pixel (0, 0), and covers the
leftmost 3 pixels of the topmost 3 pixel rows. The contains() function
then simply answers whether a given pixel is covered or not (true for
0<=x<=2 && 0<=y<=2). The "edges" here simply means the left/rightmost
pixel columns and top/bottom pixel rows covered (so "proper" contained
would be only x=1 && y=1).
I can guess that x1 x2, with x2 < x1, is "allowed" in QRect due to
easier manipulation of QRects in some cases (all ints) (references to
such cases?),
Yup, the api calls them non-normalized QRects. Useful in exceptional
cases, probably, but the api is primarily tuned (and named) for normal
rects.
Earlier I was browsing qcosmeticstroke.cpp where clip check with a point
is multiple times checked(?) with
"
const QRect &cl = stroker->clip;
if (x < cl.x() || x > cl.right() || y < cl.y() || y > cl.bottom())
return;
"
https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/src/gui/painting/qcosmeticstroker.cpp
I was expecting to see this kind of implementation, with negation, in
QRect::contains. I was also thinking if performance in rendering
is so important that a call to QRect::contains cannot be made, and that
for some reason QRect::contains cannot be made inline.
Perhaps there is a way to include an inline implementation of
QRect::contains to QRect.h which could be used here?
Looks like the implementation of contains() is indeed done to handle
non-normalized rects also. For compat reasons one may not want to change
that, but perhaps one could add a simpler variant (with a different
name) of contains() that only handles normalized rects as inline in the
header, yes.
At
https://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qt6-dev/qrect.html
something is mentioned about "historical reasons". No further arguments
or links given. Perhaps this is the source of the confusion I have?
Are these historical reasons permanent or do you plan to move away from
these historical reasons? What would go wrong if you abandon the
historical reasons?
I'm aware that QRect has been illogical for a long time
Basically, it's about the challenges that appear when mixing QRects and
QRectFs, either in use or in thinking, given that they use different
coordinate systems. (the QRect above has right() == 2, since that is the
rightmost pixel column covered. A QRectF(0, 0, 3, 3) otoh will have
right()==3, as it is cartesian.) QRect only becomes "illogical" when
thought of as a stunted QRectF.
I believe both kinds have their uses in a gui toolkit :)
cheers,
- Eirik Aa.
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