Adding click event to QFrame

[FoleyX90]

Can someone, please point me to a tutorial or explain how exactly to add a mousebuttonpress event to a QFrame so I can connect it to a slot?

[FoleyX90]

Basically, what I'm trying to do is use use a QFrame as a QPushButton

[aamer4yu]

Why dont you simply set QPushButton to flat ?
see QPushButton::setFlat

[doc_ds]

Reason not to use QPushButton::flat ist that QPushButton is atomic widget, not everything goes inside of it, and QFrame is just a frame, so basically surrounding the all widgets inside of it.

Just reimplement mousePressedEvent(QMouseEvent *me), mouseReleseEvent(QMouseEvent *me), and do like:

void mousePressedEvent(QMouseEvent *me) {
   if (me->buttons() ^ me->button()) {QFrame::mousePressedEvent(me); return;}
 
    if (me->button() == QMouseEvent::LeftMouse) {
        emit(myMousePressedSignal());
        // here you shoud remember click event...
        me->accept();
        return;
    }
 
    QFrame::mousePressedEvent(me);
}
 
void mouseRelessedEvent(QMouseEvent *me) {
   if (me->button()) {QFrame::mouseReleasedEvent(me); return;}
 
   // here emit released and click signal if clicked... if not just call mouseReleasedEvent
   // from the base class and forget about clicked, if clicked... 
 
   // Anyway each widget receives those events, not only QFrame.... 
}

void mousePressedEvent(QMouseEvent *me) {
   if (me->buttons() ^ me->button()) {QFrame::mousePressedEvent(me); return;}

    if (me->button() == QMouseEvent::LeftMouse) {
        emit(myMousePressedSignal());
        // here you shoud remember click event...
        me->accept();
        return;
    }

    QFrame::mousePressedEvent(me);
}

void mouseRelessedEvent(QMouseEvent *me) {
   if (me->button()) {QFrame::mouseReleasedEvent(me); return;}

   // here emit released and click signal if clicked... if not just call mouseReleasedEvent
   // from the base class and forget about clicked, if clicked... 

   // Anyway each widget receives those events, not only QFrame.... 
}

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[Urthas]

Reason not to use QPushButton::flat ist that QPushButton is atomic widget, not everything goes inside of it, and QFrame is just a frame, so basically surrounding the all widgets inside of it.

I think that this has its own problems however, the most notable being that you would have to make sure that a mousePressEvent is propagated to the QFrame (per the OP's intent) rather than intercepted by any widgets placed in the QFrame?