On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:54:49 +0200 "Christopher M. Nahler" <christopher.nah...@papermodels.at> wrote: > I'll take it as an "if all else fails" solution :-) not giving hope > up now!
Good for you:-) > I have changed the item cursors and view cursors to be differnt to > see which one wins as sometimes it looked as if it was working. But > it turns out its the item cursors that wins. I would expect items to win over the view since they are logically on top of the view. > After reading more on cursors I have found that application override > cursor works with a stack. Is this also the case with the "normal" > item cursors? Do I need to unset cursors? I see a reference to a > unsetCursor() function but cannot find details to it. The application cursor does use a stack. For QWidgets & QGraphicsItems a call to unsetCursor() means "I don't have a cursor preference so use my parent's cursor over me". > > Chris > > On 25.08.2010 10:30, Mark Summerfield wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:16:08 +0200 > > "Christopher M. Nahler"<christopher.nah...@papermodels.at> wrote: > > > >> I have done more tests and found the following: > >> > >> - I have tried self.update() in various locations of updateItems() > >> and it did not change the behaviour. > >> > >> - The changing of cursors always work with the item though. > >> > >> - I have also tried commenting the item.update() line and this does > >> not change the behaviour so I think update() is not relevant to > >> cursor changes. > >> > >> - I tried it with commenting the loop at the end where i change the > >> item cursors and that changed the behaviour. So somehow changing > >> the cursor of an item has an effect on the view. > >> > >> Any ideas or tips? Is this a bug or am I doing something the wrong > >> way? If I cannot get the cursors to work right I need to change my > >> approach on how i tell the user which mode he is working in. > >> > > One simple "cheat" is to create a QGraphicsItem that is the same > > size as the scene and give it a big negative zValue so that it is > > always at the back and to change the icon on that item... Haven't > > tried this though. > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > -- Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd, www.qtrac.eu C++, Python, Qt, PyQt - training and consultancy "Advanced Qt Programming" - ISBN 0321635906 http://www.qtrac.eu/aqpbook.html _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt