I am trying to update a QPixmap on a QLabel in my main Qt UI. The following slot is called to do this with the "newImage" variable QImage ( because it's from a different thread ). The QImage is converted to someImage with convertFromImage ( I've also tried ::fromImage ). If I just save the QImage "newImage" to file, I get a green rectangle and red text that I draw with OpenCV earlier on, however, if I save the converted pixmap OR show the converted pixmap I lose the color for the rectangle and text in the image but keep the color for the frame itself. I've posted 2 images below to demonstrate the difference between the QImage I pass this slot and the pixmap that is displayed on the UI in the pixmap. I don't know how to have the pixmap display the rectangle and text with color! What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
void MainWindow::updateImage(QImage newImage, double timeElapsed) {
QImage someImage = newImage.convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGB888);
// Get pixmap from data
m_NewPixMap.convertFromImage(someImage,Qt::ColorOnly); // Tried various ones of these
// Debug status
// qDebug() << "Pixmap received by MainWindow and elapsed time is: " << timeElapsed << " ( Image size is: " << newImage.byteCount() << " )";
// qDebug() << "Pixmap is null? " << m_NewPixMap.isNull();
// Update the label
float hz = 1000.0f / timeElapsed;
QString status;
status.sprintf("FrameRate (Hz) = %.02f (%.0f ms)", hz, timeElapsed);
// Update status label
m_StatusLabel->setText(status);
// Update the main view
m_Label->setPixmap(m_NewPixMap);
repaint();
//qDebug() << "Saving QImage now...";
QFile file(QString("output_detected_images/detected_image_%1.png").arg(m_Counter));
file.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly);
bool savedSuccessfully = newImage.save(&file,"PNG"); // This gives proper color in image
//bool savedSuccessfully = m_NewPixMap.save(&file, "PNG"); // THIS GIVES A BLACK IMAGE
qDebug() << "Done saving QPixmap... " << savedSuccessfully;
}