QML (Qt6.4) MouseArea not detecting 'containsPress' from another MouseArea

[Siarhei Darhel]

Hi Qt community !

I was trying to catch a containsPress in my MouseArea , and I found out that, if you have two MouseArea's and you press on one of them when move your mouse to another MouseArea while holding left button down so the second MouseArea should (I assume) detect containsPress because I still holding button, but is not detecting that.
I tried to Use HoverHandler instead and used point.pressedButtons to see if button is pressed in the area does not work for me ether.
Is this a bug or normal behavior ?

I will appreciate any suggestions on how to catch a mouse press in MouseArea which was pressed and transferred from another MouseArea.
Thank you very much!

This is a minimum reproduction code:

import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Layouts

Window {
  width: 800
  height: 480
  visible: true
  title: qsTr("Hello World")

  RowLayout {

    Rectangle {
      width: 300
      height: 300
      color: firstMouseArea.pressed  ? "lightpink" : "lightgray"
      border.width: 2
      border.color: "blue"

     // Debug info
     ColumnLayout {
       Text {
         text: "Contains Mouse: " + firstMouseArea.containsMouse
       }
       Text {
         text: "Contains Press: " + firstMouseArea.containsPress + " with button: " + firstMouseArea.pressedButtons
       }
       Text {
         text: " Pressed: " + firstMouseArea.pressed + " with button: " + firstMouseArea.pressedButtons
       }
     }

      MouseArea {
        id: firstMouseArea
        anchors.fill: parent
        hoverEnabled: true
      }
    }

    Rectangle {
      width: 300
      height: 300
      color: secondMouseArea.pressed  ? "lightpink" : "lightgray"
      border.width: 2
      border.color: "blue"

      // Debug info
      ColumnLayout {
        Text {
          text:"Contains Mouse: " + secondMouseArea.containsMouse
        }

        Text {
          text: "Contains Press: " + secondMouseArea.containsPress + " , with button: " + secondMouseArea.pressedButtons
        }
        Text {
          text: " Pressed " + secondMouseArea.pressed + " , with button: " + secondMouseArea.pressedButtons
        }
      }

      MouseArea {
        id: secondMouseArea
        hoverEnabled: true
        anchors.fill: parent

      }
    }
  }
}

[sierdzio]

@Siarhei-Darhel said in QML (Qt6.4) MouseArea not detecting 'containsPress' from another MouseArea:

Is this a bug or normal behavior ?

I think it's normal. That's how buttons behave on all operating systems (the original button remains pressed even if you move the mouse cursor out of it).

To get what you expect I can think of 2 solutions:

• reimplement onPressed and make sure to not accept the event mouse.accepted = false
• use drag & drop https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtquick-draganddrop-example.html

[Siarhei Darhel]

@sierdzio Thank you very much for reply !
I will try !