Qt mimic jQuery shake effect

Here is how a jQuery shake effect looks like: jQuery site (just scroll down and click the box as it asks in the demo). I want to do a similar thing with a QWidget in my Qt app.

How do I do this? I am sorry that I am unable to post any code to show what I have tried till now, but I couldn't try anything at all, there doesn't seem to be any convenient animation API which will allow me to do such a thing. Of course I can make do with a timer, but that will be very clumsy.

You are probably looking at the "wrong" (not ideal) UI technology. QtQuick is the one that makes animations very easy, almost trivial.

Cheers,
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The project is not using QtQuick, so cannot resort to that. Any other way of doing it?

You can try using a QPropertyAnimation on the widget's geometry property.

Cheers,
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Yeah, found the API. Will try it and post further if I am stuck.