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    Default Trying to overlay widget on a QTreeView item

    I'm trying to align a rectangle over the text portion of a QTreeView item. Calculating the rectangle is a bit complicated because the checkbox indents add up depending on the number of parents, etc.

    So to debug this I figured I'd just draw a physical rectangle over the math prediction. However, I'm unable to render a QWidget on top of a tree view item. It never shows up. Any ideas what's wrong or how to overlay a visual over a QTreeView item?

    Basically, I want to see something like this, so I can tell where my textRect calc is off.

    caThHaZ.png

    My attempt below. I'm trying to draw the rectangle in the treeview's mousePressEvent. But, no matter what I do, the overlay widget never appears...
    Qt Code:
    1. void TreeView::mousePressEvent (QMouseEvent *event)
    2. {
    3. if (event->button() == Qt::LeftButton)
    4. {
    5. QRect textRect = QRect(checkboxX
    6. + style()->pixelMetric(QStyle::PM_IndicatorWidth)
    7. + style()->pixelMetric(QStyle::PM_CheckBoxLabelSpacing)
    8. + 30 // color chip and padding
    9. + 3, // little padding
    10. vrect.y(),
    11. treeItemWidth,
    12. vrect.height());
    13.  
    14. // Overlay colored widget to see the rectangle
    15. PaintWidget *overlay = new PaintWidget(textRect, this);
    16. overlay->repaint(); // try to force the repaint
    17.  
    18. }
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    Qt Code:
    1. class PaintWidget : public QWidget
    2. {
    3. Q_OBJECT
    4.  
    5. public:
    6. explicit PaintWidget(const QRect &paintArea, QWidget *parent=nullptr)
    7. : QWidget(parent), m_area(paintArea)
    8. {
    9. setGeometry(m_area);
    10. QPalette pal = palette();
    11. // set white background
    12. pal.setColor(QPalette::Background, Qt::white);
    13. setPalette(pal);
    14. this->update();
    15. }
    16. ~PaintWidget(){};
    17.  
    18. private:
    19. QRect m_area;
    20. };
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    Default Re: Trying to overlay widget on a QTreeView item

    You cannot do any on-screen painting anywhere except in a paintEvent().

    I think you can probably accomplish what you want with a QStyledItemDelegate. All of the geometry calculations are made for you. Take a look at the Star Delegate example.

    You might also be able to do this by adding additional cases to your QAbstractItemModel::data() method to handle the Qt::BackgroundRole.
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    Default Re: Trying to overlay widget on a QTreeView item

    Thanks d_stranz, after some more attempts here's the working code.
    Qt Code:
    1. #include <QPaintEvent>
    2. #include <QPainter>
    3. #include <QDebug>
    4. class PaintWidget : public QWidget
    5. {
    6. Q_OBJECT
    7.  
    8. public:
    9. explicit PaintWidget(const QRect &paintArea, QWidget *parent=nullptr)
    10. : QWidget(parent), m_area(paintArea)
    11. {
    12. setAttribute(Qt::WA_NoSystemBackground);
    13. setAttribute(Qt::WA_TransparentForMouseEvents);
    14. }
    15. ~PaintWidget(){};
    16.  
    17. protected:
    18. void paintEvent(QPaintEvent */*event*/) override
    19. {
    20. QPainter(this).fillRect(m_area, {255, 0, 0, 100});
    21. }
    22. private:
    23. QRect m_area;
    24. };
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    And the calling function I resize the overlay widget to be the entire size of the treeview, but only paint the rectangle of interest.
    Qt Code:
    1. PaintWidget *overlay = new PaintWidget(textRect, this);
    2. overlay->resize(this->width(), this->height());
    3. overlay->show();
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