# 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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### Author: ![barche](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/barche/32/79_2.png) [@barche](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/barche)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-for-gui-app/416/53 "2016-11-24T21:43:33Z")

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> [@jheinen](#):
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> 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.

Yes, I was planning to do this kind of thing. The QPainter is easy, but in QML there is no QWidget but a QQuickItem ([QQuickPaintedItem](http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qquickpainteditem.html) here). Why is the QWidget needed? Also, how should these be passed to GR?

BTW, it may be best to discuss this in a github issue?

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