QGraphicsView over existing QGLWidget

[kalos80]

Hi,
I have an object which extends QGLWidgets and renders a 3d-scene.

I need to add some buttons to the 3D view and some animation effects, like button opacity change.
I found out that a simple way to do that would be render the 3D scene using a QGraphicsView as explained in this example
http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq26-openglcanvas.html.

The problem is that they don't use an already existing QGLWidget.
They do their GL-rendering from QGraphicsView::drawBackground(...).

Is there any way to render the QGraphicsScene scene using the QGLWidget rendering functions?
I tried to call paintGL from the drawBackground function, but it is not working.
This is the code

...
//This is how the viewport is initialized
QGraphicsView *oglGraphicsView = new QGraphicsView();
oglGraphicsView->setViewport(new MyQGLWidget(QGLFormat(QGL::SampleBuffers)));
oglGraphicsView->setViewportUpdateMode(QGraphicsView::FullViewportUpdate);
oglGraphicsView->setScene(new MyGraphicsScene());
...

...
//This is how the viewport is initialized
QGraphicsView *oglGraphicsView = new QGraphicsView();
oglGraphicsView->setViewport(new MyQGLWidget(QGLFormat(QGL::SampleBuffers)));
oglGraphicsView->setViewportUpdateMode(QGraphicsView::FullViewportUpdate);
oglGraphicsView->setScene(new MyGraphicsScene());
...

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// implementation of the drawBackground
void MyGraphicsScene::drawBackground(QPainter *painter, const QRectF &rect)
{
 painter->beginNativePainting();
 
glClearColor( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 );
 QList<QGraphicsView *> viewsList = views();
 if( viewsList.isEmpty() )
  return;
 MyQGLWidget *myGlViewport = static_cast<MyQGLWidget *>(viewsList[0]->viewport());
 // paint using MyQGLWidget rendering function
myGlViewport ->paintGL();
 
 painter->endNativePainting();
}

// implementation of the drawBackground
void MyGraphicsScene::drawBackground(QPainter *painter, const QRectF &rect)
{
 painter->beginNativePainting();
 
glClearColor( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 );
 QList<QGraphicsView *> viewsList = views();
 if( viewsList.isEmpty() )
  return;
 MyQGLWidget *myGlViewport = static_cast<MyQGLWidget *>(viewsList[0]->viewport());
 // paint using MyQGLWidget rendering function
myGlViewport ->paintGL();

 painter->endNativePainting();
}

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I know that the correct way to do it is to move the gl rendering in the drawbackground function, but to do that I will lose all high level rendering functions provided by QGlWidget.

I would be very glad if you could give me some more hints.

I'm using Qt 4.7

Thanks,
Calogero