QEvent::MouseButtonRelease with QEvent::Leave

[qtstarter121]

I have multiple widgets for which I want to implement the following functionality:

If the mouse hovers away from the widget, and then a mouse click occurs anywhere outside the widget , then I have an animation that hides the widget(s).

I am trying to figure out how to have two subsequent events be captured and handled in the simplest, most efficient way. I believe I'd need to use a combination of QEvent::MouseButtonRelease with QEvent::Leave but

I'm just not sure how to synchronize both since each event will be received at its own time in my event filter. So for the second event QEvent::MouseButtonRelease, how can we know when that event is handled that a previous event QEvent::Leave

has just occured to get the desired behaviour?

I am also open to any other methods that are more ideal to solving this problem.

Thanks.

[high_flyer]

If the mouse hovers away from the widget, and then a mouse click occurs anywhere outside the widget , then I have an animation that hides the widget(s).

This description is not very clear as it leaves open questions:
Hovering over widgets is something you generally do when the mouse moves on the screen.
So chances are that a situation where the mouse has hovered away from a widget it usually present - unless your application window opened not under the mouse pointer, and you have not yet moved the mouse over your application window.
This in turn means that usually any click will mean hiding the widgets.
More over, what if you hover over one widgets, leave it, hover over another widget and leave that as well, and then click somewhere.
Should both hovered and left widgets be hidden?

For the sake of simplicity I will assume that the answer is yes, that for each hovered and left widget when an "external" click occurs they all should be hidden.
One way to implement it would be to "register" each widget which gets a leave event (say, add its pointer to a list) and then in the mouse release event simply go over that list and call hide() on the elements in that list (and then empty the list).
More details on your part might change that answer however.