How to receive scrollbar mouse events for QGraphicsView

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In qt widget QGraphicsView I want to detect mouse-press, mouse-release and mouse-move events. I derived a class from QGraphicsView and I have overridden the following functions:

  • mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent *event)
  • mouseReleaseEvent(QMouseEvent *event)
  • mouseMoveEvent(QMouseEvent *event)

Now I can detect these mouse events almost everywhere, except for the area where are the scroll bars, which are part of QGraphicsView. I want to be able to catch these events and move the scroll bar manually.

Edit:
I am trying to simulate second mouse in windows environment sending WM_LBUTTONDOWN,... events. I would like to be able to detect this events also for scroll bars in QGraphicsView. Besides detecting the events I would like to know the event->x() and event->()y position.

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1 Answers

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QGraphicsView inherits the QAbstractScrollArea class. Thus the scrollbar widgets can be accessed with the QAbstractScrollArea::verticalScrollbar and QAbstractScrollArea::horizontalScrollbar methods.

You don't even have to use event filters once you can access the scrollbar object as the QScrollBar inherits QAbstractSlider and thus offers the signals:

QAbstractSlider::sliderPressed()
QAbstractSlider::sliderReleased()

So you can just connect them to your slots like:

connect(horizontalScrollBar(), SIGNAL(sliderPressed()), this, SLOT(doSomething()));
connect(horizontalScrollBar(), SIGNAL(sliderReleased()), this, SLOT(doSomething()));

If you need the position of the event, you will have to use event filter though. You can install an event filter on the widget object.