mousePressEvent handler not called but enterEvent is

Daniel Santos

Hi,

I have a QWidget derived class, that I am overriding events on.
I can override enterEvent and leaveEvent.
But mousePressEvent and mouseReleaseEvent aren't being called.
On the enter and leave event handlers I even do a grabMouse and releaseMouse but nothing.
Below is the code of the widget class :

#ifndef XYPATHCONTROLLER_DRAWINGAREA_H
#define XYPATHCONTROLLER_DRAWINGAREA_H

#include <QGraphicsView>

class DrawingArea : public QWidget {
    Q_OBJECT

public:
    DrawingArea(QWidget* parent);
    ~DrawingArea();

protected:
    void enterEvent(QEvent *event);
    void leaveEvent(QEvent *event);
    void mousePressEventA(QMouseEvent *event);
    void mouseReleaseEventA(QMouseEvent *event);
};

#endif //XYPATHCONTROLLER_DRAWINGAREA_H

#include <iostream>
#include <QWidget>
#include <QMouseEvent>
#include "DrawingArea.h"

DrawingArea::DrawingArea(QWidget* parent) : QWidget(parent) {
}

DrawingArea::~DrawingArea() {
}

void DrawingArea::enterEvent(QEvent* event) {
    this->setCursor(Qt::CrossCursor);
    this->grabMouse();
}

void DrawingArea::leaveEvent(QEvent *event) {
    this->setCursor(Qt::ArrowCursor);
    this->releaseMouse();
}

void DrawingArea::mousePressEventA(QMouseEvent *event) {
    const QPointF start = event->localPos();
    std::cout << "start point : " << start.x() << " - " << start.y();
}

void DrawingArea::mouseReleaseEventA(QMouseEvent *event) {
    const QPointF end = event->localPos();
    std::cout << "start point : " << end.x() << " - " << end.y();
}

Any help is welcome.
Regards

jeremy_k

@Daniel-Santos said in mousePressEvent handler not called but enterEvent is:

Hi,

I have a QWidget derived class, that I am overriding events on.
I can override enterEvent and leaveEvent.
But mousePressEvent and mouseReleaseEvent aren't being called.
On the enter and leave event handlers I even do a grabMouse and releaseMouse but nothing.
Below is the code of the widget class :
    void mousePressEventA(QMouseEvent *event);
    void mouseReleaseEventA(QMouseEvent *event);

There's an extraneous trailing A in the event handler function names.

Christian Ehrlicher

@jeremy_k said in mousePressEvent handler not called but enterEvent is:

There's an extraneous trailing A in the event handler function names.

With the proper c++11 keyword override the compiler would have told this already :)

Daniel Santos

Hi,

It was late at night and I forgot to remove the extraneous 'A'. But here's the explanation for it :
Because the methods aren't called (I set breakpoints in them and nothing happens when I press the mouse button),
I named the methods with the extra 'A' and was trying to make manula connections. Then I realized that that is a bit
silly, and this should work. So I was using the code like I pasted it in this post.
Now I corrected the code (removed the 'A' and put override keyword after the method declarations in the .h)
but I am getting the same results. The breakpoints are not triggered, and nothing is printed in the console.

I'm stumped. This is very basic, but I don't know what I am missing here.

Thanks and Reagrds

JoeCFD

Which Qt version are you using. Add event filter to your code and check if mouse events are triggered.

Daniel Santos

Hi,

I am on the latest v5. I went to the documentation and learned that the QMouseEvent for QEvent::MouseButtonPress and QEvent::MouseButtonRelease can be catched by the general event handler bool event(QEvent) and then switch on the type.

The methods I was trying to override are virtual in QWidget and are implemented in QGraphicsView.
I think that's why they are not called in my case.

Thanks,
Regards

JoeCFD

@Daniel-Santos it is technically same as event filter is used.

nagesh

@Daniel-Santos

The methods I was trying to override are virtual in QWidget and are implemented in QGraphicsView.

After handling the events if you still wants it to propagate the events further you return "false"
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qobject.html#event