I have trying to create an application where the QGraphicsScene and View are full screen.<br>I can make an Qwidget full screen and get it&#39;s size but I am unable to get the <br>QGraphicsview to become full screen.  The best I have managed is 3/4 size.<br>

<br>My latest example code is here:<br><br>import sys<br><br>from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui, QtOpenGL<br><br><br>app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)<br><br>test = QtGui.QWidget()<br>test.showFullScreen()<br><br>scene = QtGui.QGraphicsScene()<br>

#scene.setBackgroundBrush(QtGui.QBrush(QtCore.Qt.blue))<br>#scene.setBackgroundBrush(QtGui.QBrush(QtCore.Qt.transparent))<br>#view1 = scene.addText(&quot;Hello, world!&quot;, QtGui.QFont(&quot;Times&quot;, 10, QtGui.QFont.Bold));<br>

<br>item1 = QtGui.QGraphicsPixmapItem()<br>item1.setPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap(&quot;&lt;&lt;Image file goes here&gt;&gt;&gt;&quot;))<br>scene.addItem(item1)<br><br>item2 = QtGui.QGraphicsTextItem()<br>item2.setFont(QtGui.QFont(&quot;Times&quot;, 50, QtGui.QFont.Bold))<br>

item2.setPlainText(&quot;Hello, world!&quot;)#, ;<br>scene.addItem(item2)<br><br>view = QtGui.QGraphicsView(scene, test)<br>view.setBackgroundBrush(QtGui.QBrush(QtCore.Qt.transparent))<br>view.setRenderHint(QtGui.QPainter.Antialiasing &amp; QtGui.QPainter.SmoothPixmapTransform)<br>

view.setSceneRect(QtCore.QRectF(QtCore.QPointF(0, 0), QtCore.QSizeF(1280, 1024)))<br>print view.maximumViewportSize()<br>print scene.sceneRect()<br>print view.sceneRect()<br>print view.isFullScreen()<br>view.setViewport(QtOpenGL.QGLWidget())<br>

<br>#view.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(QtCore.Qt.ScrollBarAlwaysOff)<br>#view.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(QtCore.Qt.ScrollBarAlwaysOff)<br>view.setViewportUpdateMode(QtGui.QGraphicsView.FullViewportUpdate)<br>view.setFrameStyle(0);<br>

view.showFullScreen()<br>print view.isFullScreen()<br><br>sys.exit(app.exec_())<br><br><br>Also does anyone know why  the <b>view.setSceneRect </b>is required to see the TextItem over the image.<br><br>Many Thanks <br clear="all">

<br>-- <br>Tim and Alison Bentley<br>Home@TRARBentley.net<br>
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