[Interest] Possible to draw between QWindows

[Michael Jackson]

All, 
  Thanks for the ideas and pointers to the web link. We shall take a look and see what we can do.
Mike Jackson 
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From: Interest <interest-bounces+mike.jackson=bluequartz.net at qt-project.org> on behalf of "Murphy, Sean" <smurphy at walbro.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 12:59 PM
To: "interest at qt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Interest] Possible to draw between QWindows

    > By definition, you can only draw inside a window.
    > 
    > So if you need to draw, put a window there. Maybe you can make a window
    > that has no title bar, no borders and is transparent.
    
    That was going to be my suggestion as well, and I was working on something
    last week that needed a transparent overlay to draw across widgets too, so
    I had this discussion bookmarked that might be helpful?
    
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19199863/draw-rectangular-overlay-on-qwidget-at-click
    
    Sean
    
    
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