MML Annotations

MML Annotations

Overview

Nokia recently released a Math Markup Language (MML) Solution which provides an easy to use MML Widget. We can use this widget to provide a MML annotation in VisIt that will allow users to overlay complex mathematical formulas in movies.

Below is a simple proof of concept that shows how to create a QtMmlWidget and render its contents into a QImage. The example app saves the QImage to a file, but the image data could easily be converted to a vtk image and become an annotation.

#include <QtCore>
#include <QtGui>
#include <qtmmlwidget.h>
#include <iostream>

int main( int argc, char ** argv )
{
    if(argc < 3)
    {
        std::cout << "usage: qtmmlrender [input.mml] [output_image.png]" <<end;
        exit(-1);
    }
    
    QApplication app(argc,argv);
    
    // Create the widget but don't show it
    QtMmlWidget *mmlw = new QtMmlWidget();
    
    // Open the mml source file.
    QFile ifile(argv[1]);
    if (!ifile.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly))
    {/* Handle Error. */}

        
    QTextStream istream(&ifile);
    QString mml_text = istream.readAll();
    ifile.close();
   
    QString emsg;
    int eline;
    int ecol;

    if!(mmlw->setContent(mml_text, &emsg, &eline,&ecol))
    {/* Handle Error. */}
    
    // Set transparent background
    mmlw->setAttribute(Qt::WA_NoSystemBackground);
    // Create image to render into
    QImage img(mmlw->size(),QImage::Format_ARGB32);
    // Render into QImage
    mmlw->render(&img);
    
    // For this example save to file, however we could convert
    // the data to a vtk image for rendering as an annotation. 
    img.save(argv[2]);
    
}

If you want the complete source code, contact Cyrus @ he will give you a tarball.

Before attempting to build this project make sure:

• You have a working build of Qt4
• To obtain and build the qtmmlwidget solution
• To modify qtmmlrender.pro to provide the correct path to the qtmmlwidget.pri file.

To build & run:

qmake
make
qtmmlrender example.mml example.png 

The output should look like the following: