qwidget

I have the following hierarchy in my Qt Application: QMainWindow > QWidget (centralWidget) > QWidget (subclassed) > QLabel Initialization code in my QMainWindow code: centralWidget = new QWidget(); centralWidget->setGeometry(0,0,width,height); chatWidget=new ChatWidget(this); // the subclassed QWidget setCentralWidget(centralWidget); In my subclassed QWidget initialization (which happens at the same time than the Qt App initialization) I have the following code: ChatWidget::ChatWidget(QWidget *parent):QWidget(parent) { QLabel *lbl; lbl=new QLabel(this); lbl->setText("Hello World 1"); <-- Is

in my project i use a EventFilter for widgets, that are in a QHBoxLayout . If i clicked on an a widget, i want to draw a transparent overlay with blue color over the clicked widget. Is there a way to implement this? greetings This answer is in a series of my overlay-related answers: first , second , third . One way of doing it is: Have a semi-transparent overlay widget that is also transparent to mouse events. In the event filter, track the clicks and the resizing of the objects by adjusting the overlay's geometry to match that of the target widget. The self-contained example below works under

I am using Qt5 beta and trying to embed a QWidget-based object into QML. The goal is to use QML as much as possible, and only use QWidget objects where QML does not do what I need. I found a link explaining how to do this for Qt4.7, but I have not found any information explaining how to do this in Qt5. http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.7/declarative-cppextensions-qwidgets.html The same example is also available in the Qt5 examples folder under: examples\qtquick1\declarative\cppextensions\qwidgets Unfortunately, this example uses QtQuick 1, rather than QtQuick 2, and I would like to use the new