How to receive mouse events for QDoubleSpinBox

summit

I want to receive the mouse click event in the subClass of QDoubleSpinBox

This is my code but in the function void SumDoubleBox::mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent* event) does not get invoked when i click on the spinbox.

class SumDoubleBox : public QDoubleSpinBox
{
	Q_OBJECT
public:
	using QDoubleSpinBox::QDoubleSpinBox;  // inherit c'tors
	// re-implement to keep track of default step (optional, could hard-code step in stepBy())
	void setSingleStep(double val);
	// override to adjust step size
	void stepBy(int steps) override;
protected:
	void mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent* event);
		
public slots:	
	void setZero();


private:
	double m_defaultStep = 1.0;
};

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#include <SumDoubleBox.h>
 #include <qlineedit.h>
 #include <qdebug.h>

 void SumDoubleBox::setSingleStep(double val)
 {
   m_defaultStep = val;
   QDoubleSpinBox::setSingleStep(val);
 }
// override to adjust step size
 void SumDoubleBox::stepBy(int steps)
   {
// set the actual step size here
double newStep = m_defaultStep;
if (QApplication::queryKeyboardModifiers() & Qt::ShiftModifier)
	newStep *= 0.1;
// be sure to call the base setSingleStep() here, otherwise redundant loop.
QDoubleSpinBox::setSingleStep(newStep);
QDoubleSpinBox::stepBy(steps);
}

void SumDoubleBox::setZero()
{
QDoubleSpinBox::setValue(0.0);	
}

 void SumDoubleBox::mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent* event)
 {
     qDebug() << "Mouse pressed";
}

Pl45m4

@summit said in How to receive mouse events for QDoubleSpinBox:

does not get invoked when i click on the spinbox.

It does... But only if you click the spinBox Widget, not the lineEdit or something else.
If you click the up and down buttons, it should print Mouse pressed (your code worked for me, at least).

Add override to your function definition and dont forget to pass the event to the base class after you did your stuff (unless you want to interrupt that)

void SumDoubleBox::mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent* event)
{
     qDebug() << "Mouse pressed";
     QDoubleSpinBox::mousePressEvent(event);
}

summit

@Pl45m4 Thank you for reply , i am able to see the Mouse pressed printed when i click on the up and down arrows but i want to invoke the mouse press event in the lineEdit .

mrjj

@summit
Hi
you can either set your own LineEdit with mouse press override to the
spinBox.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qabstractspinbox.html#setLineEdit

or use event filter on the LineEdit to catch the click.
https://forum.qt.io/topic/67705/capture-mouse-click-on-qlineedit

summit

@mrjj Thank you , i am able to use event filter but bit confused on how to use setLineEdit.
Can you please guide me towards some tutorial or show some sample code.

jsulm

@summit said in How to receive mouse events for QDoubleSpinBox:

Can you please guide me towards some tutorial

Why do you need a tutorial for that?
Create a QLineEdit instance and pass its pointer to setLineEdit()...