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Sens4
Sens4

Reputation: 665

Implement dragMoveEvent on QWidget in pyqt5?

does anyone know how I can implement the dragMove event on my QWidget? So basically what I want is to move my mouse over the Widget hold down my mouse button and drag it. While dragging, the widget should not be moved it should only capture the mouse coordinates while the mouse is pressed.

I have already googled and just find some drag and drop tutorials where they have dragged something into a widget etc. like text. This wasn't really helpful.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3112

Answers (2)

ekhumoro
ekhumoro

Reputation: 120568

This has got nothing to do with dragging. What you actually need to do is enable mouse-tracking and then monitor mouse-move events.

Here's a simple demo:

from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets

class Window(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Window, self).__init__()
        self.setMouseTracking(True)

    def mouseMoveEvent(self, event):
        if event.buttons() & QtCore.Qt.LeftButton:
            print(event.globalPos().x(), event.globalPos().y())

if __name__ == '__main__':

    import sys
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
    window = Window()
    window.setGeometry(500, 150, 100, 100)
    window.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

Upvotes: 4

Daniele Pantaleone
Daniele Pantaleone

Reputation: 2723

I think you are looking for mousePressEvent rather than dragMoveEvent. You would need to subclass QWidget and implement the mousePressEvent method providing your implementation:

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QWidget

class MyWidget(QWidget):

    def mousePressEvent(self, event):
        print(event.pos())

Upvotes: 0

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