Good news everyone!
I found a solution. Or rather a workaround, but a simple one at least. It turns out I can easily avoid getting into the issue with local/scene/ignored transforms in the first place. I'm kind of ashamed I did not think about this earlier, but hey at least I can move forward with my project now. Here's the fix.
Instead of parenting the QGraphicsProxyWidget to a QGraphicsWidget, and explicitly setting the QWidget as proxy target, I get the proxy directly from the QGraphicsScene, letting it set the window flag on the wrapper, and set the ItemIgnoresTransformations flag on the proxy. Then (and here's the workaround) I install an event filter on the proxy, intercept the GraphicsSceneMouseMove event where I force the proxy position to currentPos+mouseDelta (both in scene coordinates).
Here's the code sample from above, patched with that solution:
import sys
import PyQt5
from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
global view
global scaleLabel
def scaleScene(event):
delta = 1.0015**event.angleDelta().y()
view.scale(delta, delta)
scaleLabel.setPlainText("scale: %.2f"%view.transform().m11())
view.update()
class ItemFilter(PyQt5.QtWidgets.QGraphicsItem):
def __init__(self, target):
super(ItemFilter, self).__init__()
self.target = target
def boundingRect(self):
return self.target.boundingRect()
def paint(self, *args, **kwargs):
pass
def sceneEventFilter(self, watched, event):
if watched != self.target:
return False
if event.type() == PyQt5.QtCore.QEvent.GraphicsSceneMouseMove:
self.target.setPos(self.target.pos()+event.scenePos()-event.lastScenePos())
event.setAccepted(True)
return True
return super(ItemFilter, self).sceneEventFilter(watched, event)
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
# create main widget
w = QWidget()
w.resize(800, 600)
layout = QVBoxLayout()
w.setLayout(layout)
w.setWindowTitle('Example')
w.show()
# rescale view on mouse wheel, notice how when view.transform().m11() is not 1,
# dragging the subwindow is not smooth on the first mouse move event
w.wheelEvent = scaleScene
# create scene and view
scene = QGraphicsScene()
scaleLabel = scene.addText("scale: 1")
view = QGraphicsView(scene)
layout.addWidget(view)
view.show();
button = QPushButton('dummy')
proxy = scene.addWidget(button, Qt.Window)
proxy.setFlag(PyQt5.QtWidgets.QGraphicsItem.ItemIgnoresTransformations)
itemFilter = ItemFilter(proxy)
scene.addItem(itemFilter)
proxy.installSceneEventFilter(itemFilter)
# start app
sys.exit(app.exec_())
It solves the isue just as wekll in c++.
Hoping this may help someone who's ended up in the same dead end I was :)
