QGraphicsView showEvent not working.

[jsulm]

@darrenleeleelee1

class PhotoViewer(QtWidgets.QGraphicsView):
    tool_lock = 'mouse'
    def __init__(self, parent):
        ...
    
    def showEvent(self, event):
        super().showEvent(event)
        print("Test")
        self.showEventHelper()
    def showEventHelper(self):
        self.fitInView()

[darrenleeleelee1]

@jsulm oh, sorry I am not notice that, but this is not a problem, it way my typo when I copy from my vscode, in my vscode is

class PhotoViewer(QtWidgets.QGraphicsView):
    tool_lock = 'mouse'
    def __init__(self, parent):
        super(PhotoViewer, self).__init__(parent)
        ...
    def showEvent(self, event):
        super().showEvent(event)
        print("Test")
        self.showEventHelper()
    def showEventHelper(self):
        self.fitInView()

and the problem still not solve.

[darrenleeleelee1]

@jsulm sorry it is my mistake, the print("Test") still not be run.Even when I correct the scope of functions.

[SGaist]

Hi,

There's an issue with your init function. The first parameter shall be a scene, the second is the parent.

See the class documentation

[jeremy_k]

@SGaist I wonder if that documentation is malformatted due to Python not supporting function overloading. The highlighted line indicates two arguments for the constructor. Inset below that appears to be a second constructor version that only accepts an optional QWidget parent. The two sentences at the end initially attracted my attention.

[JonB]

@jeremy_k
Are you just commenting on the confusion, or have you changed your code? Whatever the case you will need to set the view's scene, either through the constructor or via setScene().

[jeremy_k]

@JonB It's not my code.

I'm not convinced that misuse of the constructor which doesn't throw an exception or lead to program termination will cause a correctly implemented showEvent() to be ignored. A view without a scene is blank, but still a valid and showable QWidget.

import PyQt5.QtWidgets as QtWidgets

class View(QtWidgets.QGraphicsView):
    def showEvent(self, event):
        print("showEvent")
        super().showEvent(event)

app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])
view = View()
view.show()

~:$ python test.py
showEvent

[JonB]

@jeremy_k said in QGraphicsView showEvent not working.:

A view without a scene is blank, but still a valid and showable QWidget.

I was not aware of this. Your code shows showEvent being printed. Originally you said "Test never be printed out". So what is the situation?

[jeremy_k]

@JonB said in QGraphicsView showEvent not working.:

@jeremy_k said in QGraphicsView showEvent not working.:

A view without a scene is blank, but still a valid and showable QWidget.

I was not aware of this. Your code shows showEvent being printed. Originally you said "Test never be printed out".

I'm not the OP.

[JonB]

@jeremy_k
Oh, LOL, sorry about that! Well @darrenleeleelee1, what is the difference between your case where you say showEvent() is not hit and @jeremy_k's case where he shows it being hit? Or has this been solved and I am not understanding?!

[darrenleeleelee1]

thanks guy I get my goal by the other way