[Qt-qml] MouseArea for an image with transparent parts

[henrik.hartz at nokia.com]

Thanks for writing up the suggestion! I touched up with {code} tags ;-) We'll start looking at new features once 4.7 is out the door and we've taken care of the most important feedback to it.

Cheers,
Henrik

On 19. mars 2010, at 04.06, ext Dominic Genest wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> Could you perhaps write up a new suggestion task at 
> http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/ using component Declarative?
> 
> Yes, I have done that at http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-6862
> 
>> If you have a patch to QtDeclarative you could also add a link to a 
> merge request - but I have to tell you that this is not likely to be 
> considered for the first release as we are mostly focused on stabilizing 
> the current scope.
> 
> The code I have done to do that is probably not very interesting, since 
> it is an event filter we have to install on our QDeclarativeView's 
> QGraphicsScene. This is not a patch to QtDeclarative.
> 
>> What's the use-case for having this?
> 
> A non-rectangular button.
> 
>> Would you use non-rectangular buttons in your UI?
> 
> Yes. Of course it is never necessary, until you get a request to do that :)
> 
>> Might be possible to find a work-around by knowing the background for 
> this.
> 
> Well the background is simple: I have to implement a button having an 
> uncommon shape, and I need "enter" and "leave" events to behave correctly.
> The workaround I am using is an event filter; maybe I should have 
> implemented a Qml extension?
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Dom
> 
>> Cheers,
>> Henrik
> 
>