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    Cool Forwarding mouse events to another widget.

    Hi

    I have two widgets A & B, A is shown above B. I want that widget B forward all mouse events to widget B. Can this be done? Hints please.

    Oops, looks like I have presented to you a very simplified version of my problem. Actually, I have a stack of widgets and the top most widget which receives mouse events must forward this event to the top-most widget (at a given mouse position) under this widget. Got it?

    With regards

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    Default Re: Forwarding mouse events to another widget.

    Try event filters.

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    Default Re: Forwarding mouse events to another widget.

    Quote Originally Posted by jacek
    Try event filters.
    The problem is how to find the top-most widget under the current widget. (That too quickly, as even mouse move events will be forwarded with mouse tracking on)

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    Default Re: Forwarding mouse events to another widget.

    Does "under" represent a geometry or parent-child relation?

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    Default Re: Forwarding mouse events to another widget.

    Quote Originally Posted by wysota
    Does "under" represent a geometry or parent-child relation?
    I need to manipulate it in geometry, but they must be a part of single top-level window.

    I am working on a skinnable interface in which I have an widget named GLayer which displays any image with alpha content so that the contents of widgets below it are seen through i.e. GLayer does not do anything and needs to forward events meant for the widgets below to the respective widget.

    Two screenshots attached, one with and other without GLayer, will help you understand.
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    Default Re: Forwarding mouse events to another widget.

    Ok... so keep a list of all widgets (QObjectList for example) and iterate through that list checking each ones coordinates until you find the one that fits you most.

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    Exclamation Re: Forwarding mouse events to another widget.

    Quote Originally Posted by wysota
    Ok... so keep a list of all widgets (QObjectList for example) and iterate through that list checking each ones coordinates until you find the one that fits you most.
    I load all data from a xml file so I already have a list of all top level widgets as well as all widgets. It can easily be found which widget lies in the area, but seems that finding one which is one-step down from the top is tricky.

    EDIT: -
    QApplication has following method:

    QWidget * widgetAt ( const QPoint & point )

    Even this seems to return top most widget having the given point.
    Last edited by yogeshm02; 27th February 2006 at 15:08.

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    Default Re: Forwarding mouse events to another widget.

    Maybe you could just draw that pixmap without using the GLayer widget?

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    Exclamation Re: Forwarding mouse events to another widget.

    Quote Originally Posted by jacek
    Maybe you could just draw that pixmap without using the GLayer widget?
    Now, that would be extremely difficult to manage as the interface is being designed to be skinnable as well as scriptable.
    I've two rough ideas in my mind which ill try out.

    Two important points to notice are:-
    1. Widget which is initialised last is always at the top (Could not found any proof for this, just observation)
    2. As i've a scriptable interface, i am providing wrappers to all the custom widgets, so I can use them to monitor any changes in the z-order.

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