Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Time for action – Rotating and scaling a picture by pinching

Start a new Qt Quick Application - Empty project. Add an image file to the resources, just like we previously did in the button project. In the main.qml file, add an image to the window and make it centered in its parent:

Image {
    id: image
    anchors.centerIn: parent
    source: "qrc:/wilanow.jpg"
}

Now, we will add a PinchArea element. This kind of item can be used in two ways—either by manually implementing signal handlers onPinchStarted, onPinchUpdated, and onPinchFinished to have total control over the functionality of the gesture, or using a simplified interface similar to the drag property of MouseArea. Since the simplified interface does exactly what we want, there is no need to ...