Capturing mouseEvents

[gabello306]

I have a QTabWiget with three pages. On one page I have a QListWidget. I have implemented this to capture mouse events.

void NotebookView::mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent* event)
{
    if(event->button == Qt::LeftButton)
    {
        printf("Left Mouse Button\n");
    }
}

The NotebookView is the QTabWidget. When I press the mouse outside the QListWidget, inside the QTabWidget, then I get a mouse event. What I really need is to get the event when I click inside the QListWidget. How do I get the event inside the QListWidget?

[gabello306]

I have created a separate class of QListWidget instead of using qtcreator and now I can use the mouse events. Only how do I connect the QListWidget to the individual tab page?

[gabello306]

Figured out the problem. this->widget(<page>) will assign the QListWidget to the QTabWidget.

[gabello306]

I have done everything I can think of but I still can't select of the items in the list. Any ideas?

[Pl45m4]

@gabello306

Just use the provided signal for your List widget item clicks.
Connect a function to itemClicked and you're good.

• https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qlistwidget.html#itemClicked

[jsulm]

@gabello306 said in Capturing mouseEvents:

Any ideas?

Maybe because you've overridden the mousePressEvent?
Do you call inherited mousePressEvent in your mousePressEvent?