Newbie question on ElasticNodes example

fireking

Node hover text clipping problem:

I was using hoverEnterEvent and hoverLeaveEvent to allow a string of text to be displayed over a node.

In Node::paint I've tried variants of drawText like...

painter->drawText( 0,-5, context );

to display a QString context above the node, the string is constrained to the Rect of the Node.

How do I give the string (variable length) a different display Rect than it's associated Node?

All help welcome!

Santosh Reddy

The hover text string has be drawn on a widget of it's own. You need to have two widgets

fireking

Thanks.

And can I use the Node relative scene coordinates to locate the text widget somehow?

Santosh Reddy

by the those are items (technically speaking not widgets)

bq. And can I use the Node relative scene coordinates to locate the text widget somehow?

If you have the hover text item as a child item of the node item, then yes that is how you would do.