[PyQt] Bug with QWidget masks in QGraphicsScene?

[Jeremy]

Hello,

I have a question (which may stem from either a bug in PyQt, Qt, or just 
my understanding of how Qt is supposed to work). In particular, 
according to the Qt documentation 
(http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qwidget.html#setMask) masked widgets are 
only supposed to receive mouse events on their visible portions. This 
works fine on a normal widget in a GUI, but doesn't seem to be the case 
if I add a widget to a QGraphicsScene via the addWidget method.

In particular, some example code is attached.  In this example I create 
two buttons, and place one in a QGraphicsScene and the other as part of 
a normal layout. I then add a simple mask so that only the left half of 
each button is visible. Then, if I click the non-visible part (right 
half) of the normal-layout-button, nothing happens (which seems like the 
correct behavior). But if I click the invisible right half of the 
QGraphicsScene button, the button still appears to be receiving the 
mouse click event.

So, my question is...is this a bug in PyQt? Or does the same behavior 
happen under Qt in other languages? Or is it not a bug at all, and 
QWidgets are not supposed to respect their masks with regard to mouse 
events when added to QGraphicsScenes? Or am I just totally crazy? ;-)

Any advice or suggestions anyone can provide would be very much 
appreciated!

- Jeremy
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