Drawing dots on top of image upon mouse clicks

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guidoasc4064 | 2020-05-16 12:43:57 UTC | #1

Hi all! I'm very new to PyQt5, so bare with me if the question has an obvious answer. Some context: I'm trying to develop a GUI that will let users open an image (using opencv; the image then goes onto a QLabel) that features a person. The GUI then allows the user to digitize (and save) the positions of the person's joints (ankles, knees, elbows, etc). Ideally, the GUI would function like this. First, the user opens an image by pressing CTRL+o. Then, the image gets displayed, and the user has to select one of the pushButtons with the joint names (these appear below the QLabel with the image), each corresponding to a different joint. When a joint button is selected, if the user clicks on a point on the image the coordinates of that point are saved in a dictionary under the name of the joint that was selected, and a dot should appear on that pixel, to indicate that that's the pixel where the joint was digitised (so the user can quickly see if he/she made a mistake). The part I got stuck on is this: when the user clicks on a joint, I want a green (if it was a left mouse click, representing a joint that is visible) or yellow (if it was a right mouse click, representing a joint that was occluded) dot to appear where the user clicked. I followed the code given in the brilliantly explained tutorial at https://www.pythonguis.com/courses/custom-widgets/bitmap-graphics/, but it did not work for me: it doesn't give any errors, and the draw_something method does get called whenever the user clicks (I checked this using print statements), but no dots appear. My hunch is that the dots are indeed being drawn, only they are being drawn UNDER the image. Any thoughts? Below is my code: I apologise if it's a bit long and articulated, I hope you can follow my line of thought. Thanks!

python
import cv2
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtWidgets, QtGui
from PyQt5.QtCore import pyqtSlot
from PyQt5.QtGui import QImage, QPixmap, QFont, QColor
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QDialog, QApplication, QFileDialog, QMainWindow
from PyQt5.uic import loadUi

import json as serializer
import csv

# track movements of the mouse to display a (x,y) label next to it
class MouseTracker(QtCore.QObject):
    positionChanged = QtCore.pyqtSignal(QtCore.QPoint)

    def __init__(self, widget):
        super().__init__(widget)
        self._widget = widget
        self.widget.setMouseTracking(True)
        self.widget.installEventFilter(self)

    @property
    def widget(self):
        return self._widget

    def eventFilter(self, o, e):
        if o is self.widget and e.type() == QtCore.QEvent.MouseMove:
            self.positionChanged.emit(e.pos())
        return super().eventFilter(o, e)

# main window
class MyMainWindow(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        loadUi('load_and_save2.ui',self)
        self.image=None
        self.actionOpen.triggered.connect(self.loadTriggered)
        self.actionExit.triggered.connect(self.close)
        self.imgLabel.resize(1920, 844) # specific resolution (DO NOT CHANGE)
        self.joint_selected = None
        self.buttonLeft_ankle.clicked.connect(lambda: self.jointSelected('Left_ankle'))
        self.buttonRight_ankle.clicked.connect(lambda: self.jointSelected('Right_ankle'))
        self.buttonLeft_knee.clicked.connect(lambda: self.jointSelected('Left_knee'))
        self.buttonRight_knee.clicked.connect(lambda: self.jointSelected('Right_knee'))
        self.buttonLeft_hip.clicked.connect(lambda: self.jointSelected('Left_hip'))
        self.buttonRight_hip.clicked.connect(lambda: self.jointSelected('Right_hip'))
        self.buttonLeft_shoulder.clicked.connect(lambda: self.jointSelected('Left_shoulder'))
        self.buttonRight_shoulder.clicked.connect(lambda: self.jointSelected('Right_shoulder'))
        self.buttonLeft_elbow.clicked.connect(lambda: self.jointSelected('Left_elbow'))
        self.buttonRight_elbow.clicked.connect(lambda: self.jointSelected('Right_elbow'))
        self.buttonLeft_wrist.clicked.connect(lambda: self.jointSelected('Left_wrist'))
        self.buttonRight_wrist.clicked.connect(lambda: self.jointSelected('Right_wrist'))
        self.joints = {}

        tracker = MouseTracker(self.imgLabel)
        tracker.positionChanged.connect(self.on_positionChanged)
        self.label_position = QtWidgets.QLabel(
            self.imgLabel, alignment=QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter
        )

    def jointSelected(self, joint):
        self.joint_selected = joint

    # detects if left or right mouse was clicked
    def mousePressEvent(self, event):
        # on left mouse click, it prints to screen the coordinates and 0
        if event.button() == QtCore.Qt.LeftButton:
            self.lastLeftPoint = self.imgLabel.mapFromParent(event.pos())
            if self.joint_selected is not None:
                self.joints[self.joint_selected] = [self.lastLeftPoint.x(), self.lastLeftPoint.y(), 1]
                # turn green the background of corresponding joint button
                self.changeButtonBackground(joint_selected=self.joint_selected,
                                            visible=1)
                self.draw_something(self.lastLeftPoint.x(),
                                    self.lastLeftPoint.y(),
                                    visible=1)

        # on right mouse click, it prints to screen the coordinates and 1
        elif event.button() == QtCore.Qt.RightButton:
           self.lastRightPoint = self.imgLabel.mapFromParent(event.pos())
           if self.joint_selected is not None:
               self.joints[self.joint_selected] = [self.lastLeftPoint.x(), self.lastLeftPoint.y(), 0]
               # turn yellow the background of corresponding joint button
               self.changeButtonBackground(joint_selected=self.joint_selected,
                                           visible=0)
               self.draw_something(self.lastLeftPoint.x(),
                                   self.lastLeftPoint.y(),
                                   visible=0)

    def changeButtonBackground(self, joint_selected, visible):
        button_name = 'button' + joint_selected
        if visible:
            getattr(self, button_name).setStyleSheet("background-color:green")
        elif not visible:
            getattr(self, button_name).setStyleSheet("background-color:yellow")

    def draw_something(self, x, y, visible):
        print(f'About to draw a dot (visible={visible})')
        painter = QtGui.QPainter(self.imgLabel.pixmap())
        pen = QtGui.QPen()
        pen.setWidth(40)
        if visible:
            pen.setColor(QtGui.QColor('green'))
        else:
            pen.setColor(QtGui.QColor('yellow'))
        painter.setPen(pen)
        painter.drawPoint(x, y)
        painter.end()
        print('Dot drawn')

    # reposition the (x,y) label as the mouse moves
    # make the font of the label bold and green
    @QtCore.pyqtSlot(QtCore.QPoint)
    def on_positionChanged(self, pos):
        delta = QtCore.QPoint(30, -15)
        self.label_position.show()
        self.label_position.move(pos + delta)
        self.label_position.setText(f'{self.joint_selected}')
        myFont=QtGui.QFont('Arial', 12)
        myFont.setBold(True)
        self.label_position.setFont(myFont)
        self.label_position.adjustSize()
        color  = QtGui.QColor(0,128,0)
        values = "{r}, {g}, {b}".format(r = color.red(),
                                        g = color.green(),
                                        b = color.blue()
                                        )
        self.label_position.setStyleSheet("QLabel {color:rgb("+values+")}")

        #self.label_position.setBackground(QtGui.QColor('sea green'))

    # user wants to open an image -> open it from a user-selected folder
    def loadTriggered(self):
        fname,filter = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, 'Open File','C:\\',"Image Files (*.jpg)")
        if fname:
            self.loadImage(fname)
        else:
            print('Invalid Image')

    # load the selected image, using opencv
    def loadImage(self,fname):
        self.image=cv2.imread(fname,cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)
        self.displayImage()

    # display loaded image on main window
    def displayImage(self):
        qformat=QImage.Format_Indexed8

        if len(self.image.shape)==3: # rows[0],cols[1],channels[2]
            if(self.image.shape[2])==4:
                qformat=QImage.Format_RGBA8888
            else:
                qformat=QImage.Format_RGB888
        img=QImage(self.image,self.image.shape[1],self.image.shape[0],self.image.strides[0],qformat)
        # BGR > RGB
        img= img.rgbSwapped()
        self.imgLabel.setPixmap(QPixmap.fromImage(img))
        self.imgLabel.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignHCenter|QtCore.Qt.AlignVCenter)

if __name__=='__main__':
    import sys
    app=QApplication(sys.argv)
    window=MyMainWindow()
    window.setWindowTitle('Load and Save Images')
    window.showMaximized()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

martin | 2020-05-17 09:01:12 UTC | #2

Hey @guidoasc4064 welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

I can't be 100% sure without testing it (can you also attach your ui file?) but looking at the code I think the issue is that you're drawing to the wrong pixmap. In draw_something you have e.g.

python
        painter = QtGui.QPainter(self.imgLabel.pixmap())

But if I understand you right you want to draw to the actual image, which is in self.image ? If that's right the line should be --

python
        painter = QtGui.QPainter(self.image.pixmap())

Hope that helps!

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