QCustomPlot Discussion and Comments

Hi guys, I'm kinda new at using this library, but i was wondering if is possible to create a heatmap using this library. If possible can you point me in the direction on how to create it.

Maybe you are looking for "QCPColorMap".
You can find a demo of this in the official example. Below are the codes

void MainWindow::setupColorMapDemo(QCustomPlot *customPlot)
{
  demoName = "Color Map Demo";
  
  // configure axis rect:
  customPlot->setInteractions(QCP::iRangeDrag|QCP::iRangeZoom); // this will also allow rescaling the color scale by dragging/zooming
  customPlot->axisRect()->setupFullAxesBox(true);
  customPlot->xAxis->setLabel("x");
  customPlot->yAxis->setLabel("y");

  // set up the QCPColorMap:
  QCPColorMap *colorMap = new QCPColorMap(customPlot->xAxis, customPlot->yAxis);
  int nx = 200;
  int ny = 200;
  colorMap->data()->setSize(nx, ny); // we want the color map to have nx * ny data points
  colorMap->data()->setRange(QCPRange(-4, 4), QCPRange(-4, 4)); // and span the coordinate range -4..4 in both key (x) and value (y) dimensions
  // now we assign some data, by accessing the QCPColorMapData instance of the color map:
  double x, y, z;
  for (int xIndex=0; xIndex<nx; ++xIndex)
  {
    for (int yIndex=0; yIndex<ny; ++yIndex)
    {
      colorMap->data()->cellToCoord(xIndex, yIndex, &x, &y);
      double r = 3*qSqrt(x*x+y*y)+1e-2;
      z = 2*x*(qCos(r+2)/r-qSin(r+2)/r); // the B field strength of dipole radiation (modulo physical constants)
      colorMap->data()->setCell(xIndex, yIndex, z);
    }
  }
  
  // add a color scale:
  QCPColorScale *colorScale = new QCPColorScale(customPlot);
  customPlot->plotLayout()->addElement(0, 1, colorScale); // add it to the right of the main axis rect
  colorScale->setType(QCPAxis::atRight); // scale shall be vertical bar with tick/axis labels right (actually atRight is already the default)
  colorMap->setColorScale(colorScale); // associate the color map with the color scale
  colorScale->axis()->setLabel("Magnetic Field Strength");
  
  // set the color gradient of the color map to one of the presets:
  colorMap->setGradient(QCPColorGradient::gpPolar);
  // we could have also created a QCPColorGradient instance and added own colors to
  // the gradient, see the documentation of QCPColorGradient for what's possible.
  
  // rescale the data dimension (color) such that all data points lie in the span visualized by the color gradient:
  colorMap->rescaleDataRange();
  
  // make sure the axis rect and color scale synchronize their bottom and top margins (so they line up):
  QCPMarginGroup *marginGroup = new QCPMarginGroup(customPlot);
  customPlot->axisRect()->setMarginGroup(QCP::msBottom|QCP::msTop, marginGroup);
  colorScale->setMarginGroup(QCP::msBottom|QCP::msTop, marginGroup);
  
  // rescale the key (x) and value (y) axes so the whole color map is visible:
  customPlot->rescaleAxes();
}