I have a big rectangle with a button centered. I would like that my rectangle is transparent to mouse events except for the button, which must be clickable. I mean, I would like to be able to select code under my rectangle with the mouse, exactly as if no Rectangle was displayed.

I have added a MouseArea for all the big Rect, trying to ignore mouse events, but it does not work.

I read that 'Qt::WA_TransparentForMouseEvents' is used for that purpose, but in Qt windows as fasr as I know, not available in my case.

Thanks in advance

My QML is loaded from main.cpp:

Qt Code: 
  1. QQuickView* pView = new QQuickView();
  2.  
  3.     pView->setSource(QUrl("qrc:/MyRect.qml"));
  4.     pView->setFlags(Qt::Tool | Qt::FramelessWindowHint | Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint);
  5.     pView->setColor("transparent");
  6.     pView->show();
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MyRect.qml:

Qt Code: 
  1. import QtQuick 2.0
  2. import QtQuick.Controls 1.4
  3.  
  4. Rectangle {
  5.     width: 500
  6.     height: 500
  7.  
  8.     color: "green" // it would be transparent
  9.     opacity: 0.5
  10.  
  11.     Button {
  12.         anchors.centerIn: parent
  13.         height: 50; width: 50
  14.         onClicked: console.log("clicked");
  15.     }
  16.  
  17.     MouseArea {
  18.         anchors.fill: parent
  19.         enabled: false
  20.         propagateComposedEvents: true
  21.         hoverEnabled: false
  22.  
  23.         // All this code I think is useless...
  24.         onClicked: mouse.accepted = false
  25.         onReleased: mouse.accepted = false
  26.         onEntered: mouse.accepted = false
  27.         onExited:  mouse.accepted = false
  28.         onWheel:  mouse.accepted = false
  29.     }
  30. }
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