QSlider mouse direct jump

Question

Instead of stepping when the user clicks somewhere on the qslider I want to make the slider jump to that position. How can this be implemented ?

Answer 1

i have been trying and searching this on net and was expecting Qt for a smarter way doing this, unfortunately there was not big help (may be i was not searching properly )

well i have done this in Qt creator:

1. Add an eventFilter in header ( takes QObject and QEvent as argument ) (bool return type)
2. Initialize in constructor ..for eg .. if ur slider is HSlider then ui->HSlider->installEventFilter(this);

3. In the defination :

   a. check if the object is your slider type something like : ui->HSlider == Object

   b. Check for mouse click event something like : QEvent::MouseButtonPress == event->type

   c. if the above all passes means u have got mouse event on the slider do something like : in definition : ui->HSlider->setValue( Qcursor::pos().x() - firstval ); return QMainWindow::eventFilter(object, event);

Note: fistVal : can be taken out by printing the cursur position at 0 = initial position of the slider ( with help of QCursor::pos().x() )

hope this helps