I'm new to PyQt and I'm trying to use it to create a widget that returns the position of the mouse in real time.
Here's what I have:
import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (QWidget, QToolTip,
QPushButton, QApplication)
from PyQt5.QtGui import QFont
class MouseTracker(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.initUI()
self.setMouseTracking(True)
self.installEventFilter(self)
def initUI(self):
self.setGeometry(300, 300, 300, 200)
self.setWindowTitle('Mouse Tracker')
self.show()
def eventFilter(self, source, event):
if (event.type() == QtCore.QEvent.MouseMove and
event.buttons() == QtCore.Qt.NoButton):
pos = event.pos()
print('Mouse coords: ( %d : %d )' % (pos.x(), pos.y()))
return QtGui.QWidget.eventFilter(self, source, event)
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
ex = MouseTracker()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
I'm confused on how to make this work. I set mouse tracking to True but I'm not sure how to apply the event filter. Any help?