Mouse event for MouseArea

RobM

Is there anyway to detect an over all event in a MouseArea? For instance, I have a MouseArea, and I am performing actions at each event such as onClicked or onPressed, but I want to fire a signal if either onPressed or onClicked happens without putting the signal in code on both events, is that possible?

sierdzio

@RobM said in Mouse event for MouseArea:

Is there anyway to detect an over all event in a MouseArea? For instance, I have a MouseArea, and I am performing actions at each event such as onClicked or onPressed, but I want to fire a signal if either onPressed or onClicked happens without putting the signal in code on both events, is that possible?

Yes, use a function:

MouseArea {
  function doSomething() {
    // Something
  }

  onClicked: doSomething()
  onPressed: doSomething()
}

RobM

I should have been more specific. Here is what I have:

signal mouseEvent

MouseArea
{
  onPressed: do stuff
  onReleased: do stuff
  onClicked: do stuff
  onPressAndHold: do stuff
  onPositionChanged: do stuff
  onWheel: do stuff
}

so in order to trigger mouseEvent I would have to add it to each event like so:

signal mouseEvent

MouseArea
{
  onPressed: mouseEvent()
  onReleased: mouseEvent()
  onClicked: mouseEvent()
  onPressAndHold: mouseEvent()
  onPositionChanged: mouseEvent()
  onWheel: mouseEvent()
}

but, I was hoping I might be able to avoid that somehow, for instance:

signal mouseEvent: mouseArea.event //<-- or something like this "event" isn't real... I made it up, but I was hoping for something like that.
MouseArea
{
  id: mouseArea

  onPressed: do stuff
  onReleased: do stuff
  onClicked: do stuff
  onPressAndHold: do stuff
  onPositionChanged: do stuff
  onWheel: do stuff
}

but, I can't think of a way. If I could do it this way the I could reduce the calls to mouseEvent to one instead of (in this instance) 6.

fcarney

@RobM
You could abstract it:
Put in AllEventMouseArea.qml

MouseArea {
  property var allfunc
  onPressed: allfunc()
  onReleased: allfunc()
  onClicked: allfunc()
  onPressAndHold: allfunc()
  onPositionChanged: allfunc()
  onWheel: allfunc()
}

Then in other code:

AllEventMouseArea {
  func: {
    // do stuff
  }
}