problem painting

within an MDI I have subwindows as QScrollArea with a QWidget scrollAreaWidgetContents inside

Code:

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childScrollArea::childScrollArea(QWidget *parent) :
    QScrollArea(parent),
    m_ui(new Ui::childScrollArea)
{
 
        scrollAreaWidgetContents = new QWidget();
        childScrollArea->setWidget(scrollAreaWidgetContents);
 
        scrollAreaWidgetContents->show();
 
}
 
 
void childScrollArea::paintEvent(QPaintEvent * /* event */)
{
    QPainter painter(this);
 
    painter.fillRect(QRect(0, 0, 300, 300), Qt::blue );
}

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unfortunately the paint event in this case does not do any painting in the window!

what do i do wrong?

Thanks for any hint

QScrollArea has a viewport, you should probably be painting on that, if at all.

ok the viewport did the display part, but i cannot get the scroll bar to show, whatever the size of my widget inside... so what else is missing?

It depends what the widget does. Does it have a layout?

i tried with a layout around the widget.. i don't get it to work..

also what is strange is that i do not have any event like mouse event within the minimum size of my scroll area, outside the minimum size i do have mouse event. i am sure it is related and i am missing something, i have no clue what

If it doesn't have a layout then its size is probably not constrained in any way. How do you set the size of this widget?