Collision detection between two subclassed QGraphicsItem's

[Caolan O'Domhnaill]

Hello,

I am new to QT and am using 5.5 on a Windows 7 box.

I have derived two separate classes from QGraphicsItem and I wish to detect when one collides with the other. One is called Particle, the other is called Vector. When a Vector collides with a particle, if the line().p1() or p2() is anywhere within the rectangle of the Particle, I wish to set the parent item of the vector to be the particle and assign the particle pointer to a member variable of the vector. After that the particle will move all attached vectors as a system when I move it around the screen.

The problem I am encountering is how to determine that the colliding object is a Particle or just another object of some other kind. I thought that using the UserType would be useful here but before I start down a path of code writing, i wanted to see if that is the best solution seeing how I am new to the system and all.

Regards,
-Caolan.

[anda_skoa]

Yes, using proper values return from type() is the suggested option for "detecting" graphic item sub types.
The qgraphicsitem_cast() function uses that as well.

Of course you can also use C++ dynamic_cast, but that could be slightly slower.

Cheers,
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