[PyQt] Newbie - QGraphicsItem & QGraphicsScene problems

[İsmail Dönmez]

Hi,

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Aysun Bascetincelik <aysunbcc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to implement a simple paint like program. I am having mainly two
> problems:
>
> 1. I have an item class inherited from QGraphicsItem and I use
> QGraphicsScene.addItem() to add it to the scene. However, I can only see the
> last added item. Although all previous items (when I use
> QGraphicsScene.items()) are present and their visible properties are true,
> they are not shown on my scene. This thing only happens when I use addItem()
> with the class I implemented. If I use addLine() more than once, I can see
> all items created by that addLine() function.

Not sure about this one but,

> 2.The other problem is when I try to select an item with a left mouse click.
> I did not implement the mousePressEvent() inside the item class but I
> implemented the one in scene class. I can get the mouse scenePos() easily
> and use it to add items. After adding an item, if I use itemAt() function
> with a new click on the item and scenePos(), it always returns None. I set
> the flags of the item all true.

To be able to catch mouse events you need to call
QGraphicsView::setInteractive(True) on your graphics view object.

Regards.

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