[Qt-interest] Tracking mouse over label

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 01/20/2011 07:36 PM, Jason H wrote:
> I thought  you also had to turn mouse move events on, otherwise you only get
> button/focus/drag events? I think by default you don't get the move events.

That's what "tracking" is.


> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bo Thorsen<bo at fioniasoftware.dk>
> To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
> Sent: Thu, January 20, 2011 12:23:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Tracking mouse over label
>
> Den 20-01-2011 18:20, Nikos Chantziaras skrev:
>> On 01/20/2011 07:15 PM, Cole, Derek wrote:
>>> I have a label that I am using to display a QPixmap. I want to be able
>>> to track the mouse any time it is crossing over the QLabel to give me
>>> the XY coordinates of the image. I see that there is a mouseTracking
>>> checkbox in QtCreator that I checked, but how do I get the mouseover
>>> event on the label?
>> You need to subclass from QLabel and reimplement the event handler.
>
> Or set an event handler if you don't want to subclass just to get those
> coordinates.
>
> Bo Thorsen,
> Fionia Software.
>