[Interest] propagateComposedEvents-like behavior with qt controls 2 components (no C++)

[Daniel d'Andrada]

Actually MouseArea.drag.filterChildren is just what I was looking for
(so you can implement option A in pure QML). Sorry for the noise.

- Daniel


On 09/25/2017 09:58 AM, Andrew Ialacci wrote:
> I think you can chain the signal calls using signal.connect(otherSignal) and then set the drag target to null.
>
> I had to implement something like this while writing an MDI windowing system. Admittedly though I did resort to moving 99% of the geometry manipulation and event handling to CPP.
>
> I wish there was a way to subclass the QQC2 controls completely that allowed lower level access to each controls event system.
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Sep 25, 2017, at 9:28 AM, Daniel d'Andrada <daniel.dandrada at luxoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I wanna have the following (A):
>>
>> Foo {
>>     Button {}
>> }
>>
>> or (B):
>>
>> Item {
>>     Button {}
>>     Foo {}
>> }
>>
>> Where "Foo" is an item that is interested only in drag gestures. So when
>> one is performed it does its thing. It ignores clicks, letting them go
>> to the Button element inside/behind it.
>>
>> So A is a QQuickItem::filtersChildMouseEvents way of doing things (like
>> Flickable), whereas B is a MouseArea::propagateComposedEvents approach.
>>
>> B is not an option as QtQuick.Controls2 are not MouseArea based, so it
>> just won't work.
>>
>> To implement Foo as in option A I would have to resort to C++. But I
>> would like a pure-QML solution for this. Is it possible?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
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