how can I have a fixed overlay layer in a View ?

[aamer4yu]

Sorry, I guess I replied in a hurry.
Well, in that case why dont you make the topFrame as a child of view ? I dont think it is compulsory to make it a graphics item.
The top frame would need to have transparent background.

By the way if you dont have any interaction with the topframe, ie. no clicking or key press on it, and simply rendering, better way would be to simply draw in QGraphicsScene::drawForeground or QGraphicsView::drawBackground

If I come across some other solution I will let you know.

[Jaymz]

I kind of get some of your idea, but I would need an example to understand better. The topFrame has nothing to do with clicks or key pressing, but it needs to display some objects like timers, scores, etc.

For the given code in my first reply, could you please make an example on how would you create the topFrame and incorporate it in the view? thank you