#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Put some text on the screen with Qt5.

Mostly copied from
/usr/share/doc/python-qt4-doc/examples/painting/painterpaths.py, but
reduced to a minimum.

The Qt4 version is in the version history.

This runs in both Python 2.7 and Python 3.5.

"""

import sys

# Supposedly this is necessary for Python 2?
# import sip
# sip.setapi("QVariant", 2)

from PyQt5 import QtGui, Qt, QtWidgets

def main(argv):
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(argv)
    window = Window()
    window.show()
    return app.exec_()

class Window(Qt.QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Window, self).__init__()
        self.text = QtGui.QPainterPath()
        self.text.addText(3, 70, QtGui.QFont("Times", 50), "&Qt")
        self.setLayout(Qt.QGridLayout()) # so the window resizes properly
        self.setWindowTitle("hello qt")
        self.setMinimumSize(128, 128)

    def paintEvent(self, event):
        painter = QtGui.QPainter(self)
        self.clear(painter)
        painter.setRenderHint(QtGui.QPainter.Antialiasing) # not blocky
        painter.setBrush(QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor('black'))) # not hollow
        painter.drawPath(self.text)

    def clear(self, painter):
        """Doesn’t really work."""
        background = QtGui.QPainterPath()
        background.moveTo(0, 0)
        background.lineTo(self.width(), 0)
        background.lineTo(self.width(), self.height())
        background.lineTo(0, self.height())
        background.closeSubpath()
        painter.setBrush(QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor('white')))
        painter.drawPath(background)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))