# Julia for GUI app

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-for-gui-app/416
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [November 18, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-for-gui-app/416 "2016-11-18T15:20:50Z")
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#### Post date: [November 24, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-for-gui-app/416/52 "2016-11-24T15:40:36Z")

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@barche : Is it possible to obtain the `QWidget` and the `QPainter` reference for the plotting area used by your `QML` package? With this information `GR` could draw directly into the corresponding object without creating an intermediate image. That would be much faster.

Might sound crazy - but we’ve used this method for years …

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