QGraphicsItem or QGraphicsProxyWidget?

[ttvo]

Great, that works. I decided to subclass QGraphicsTextItem to include the draw of its boundary, eliminating the need for the QGraphicsRectItem *rect. So the ports are children of my custom text, but how am I going to be able to query how many ports a given custom text item has?

Should I make the ports as member variable of my custom text? If so, will I need to override the paint method to draw the ports (of type QGraphicsEllipseItem or QGraphicsRectItem). Thanks.

[wysota]

Great, that works. I decided to subclass QGraphicsTextItem to include the draw of its boundary, eliminating the need for the QGraphicsRectItem *rect. So the ports are children of my custom text, but how am I going to be able to query how many ports a given custom text item has?

You need to provide some API for this in your subclass.

Should I make the ports as member variable of my custom text? If so, will I need to override the paint method to draw the ports (of type QGraphicsEllipseItem or QGraphicsRectItem). Thanks.

Why does informing one object about a state of another object require reimplementing its drawing routines?