How to do auto show/hide a widget in Qt

**Santosh Reddy** · 30th May 2013, 10:08

QEvent::MouseMove event is received for parent widget, and QEvent::Leave should be received for self widget, so move the else if out of if(parent() ==...., and also make suere to install the event filter on self. (this->installEventFilter(this);

**rawfool** · 30th May 2013, 10:29

Thanks a lot. All the issues related to this are solved for now.

**rawfool** · 3rd June 2013, 06:35

Just a small note, as this may help someone who do this. After doing this -

Originally Posted by Santosh Reddy

QEvent::Leave should be received for self widget ..

it hides the widget.
A small problem persisted and it was - if there's a layout and widgets in the mouse-hover area, then the trigger didn't reach the menu widget. I solved it by making the layout and widgets as children to the same parent to which menu widget was and enabled mouse tracking true for the widget(s) on the way and this solved my problem.
Thank you.