Artificial MouseEvent and natural MouseEvent on QGraphicsView return different positions

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Dear All,

Since I am kind of a Qt-novice I apologize if this has been asked/cleared before but my forum search didn't yield any results that could solve my problem.

I am trying to create a drawing app where the user can enter basic shapes like points and polygons. The app contains a menubar on the left which is a QWidget with some nested layout. On the right I created a QWidget which contains a subclassed QGraphicsView called inputViewer and some labels below, arranged in a layout aswell. The scenes that are displayed in the inputViewer are subclasses of QGraphicsScene called inputModel.

To handle the drawing, I overwrote the mousePressEvent-functions on both, the QGraphicsView and the QGraphicsScene. The actual drawing by mouse where only the mousePressEvent-functions get called work as I would expect it and therefore I assume these are correct.

I want the user to be able to also draw a point at the cursor-position when the Qt::Key_Return is pressed. For that I overwrote the inputViewer::keyPressEvent() and artificially triggered a QMousePressEvent. For the position of the QMousePressEvent I created a QCursor object in the inputViewer and get the position by calling cursor->pos() (returns global coordinates afaik) and map them to the inputViewer with mapFromGlobal(). The inputViewer::mousePressEvent() is not overwritten and therefore should propagate the event right down to the scene if I am not mistaken.

The problem is that if I let the program output the coordinates that I get from points being drawn by mouse and points being drawn by keyboard, there is a little offset. For example if I click on my canvas, don't move the mouse and press Return the output of the program is not the same.

I hope the example is sufficient and thank all of you for your help and patience in advance.

Regards

~Bazzog

The program:

void inputViewer::keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent *event)
{
... some other if and elses to handle different keys ...
else if(event->key() == Qt::Key_Return)
{
QMouseEvent event =QMouseEvent(QEvent::MouseButtonPress,this->mapFromGlobal(cursor->pos()),Qt::LeftButton,Qt::LeftButton,Qt::NoModifier);
QGraphicsView::mousePressEvent(&event);
}
else
{
QGraphicsView::keyPressEvent(event);
}
}

void inputModel::mousePressEvent(QGraphicsSceneMouseEvent *event)
{
std::cout << " Scene-coordinates are: " << event->scenePos().x() << " " << event->scenePos().y() << std::endl;
... some drawing functions like adding an ellipse ...
}

[mrjj]

Hi I dont know about mouse coors
but Just wanted to make sure you saw
Diagram Scene Example
in case you could borrow stuff from that.