[Darren]

Hi guys,

I am now using cameraVPlay in my level editor with the following behaviours:

1. When level editing the camera is in free mode and can be dragged to display different parts of the game area.
2. When I click on an entity, the camera centres on that entity.  At this point my level editor also opens up an entity editor that I have created.

I have managed this behaviour by setting – mouseArea.propagateComposedEvents: true – within my cameraVPlay component.  This allows for the click to be ignored by the cameraVPlay.mouseArea and instead handled by my entity which sits beneath it.  This is how I have managed to make it possible to click on the entity whilst level editing.

 

Whilst I am editing the entity I need to be able to drag the entity to other parts of the screen – allowing the user to reposition it.  I also want to be able to zoom in and out using pinchZoom.

In order to achieve the behaviour of dragging the entity around the screen, I need to temporarily turn off the drag feature of cameraVPlay.  I have achieved this so far by disabling the mouseArea with – camera.mouseAreaEnabled = false.

Unfortunately this also turns off the pinchZoom.

 

Is it possible, whilst in camera free-move mode, to either disable the drag feature, or to propagate the drag to an object behind the camera – so that it could be handled by my draggable entity?

 

The – mouseArea.propagateComposedEvents: true – does not propagate the drag event to the entity beneath the camera.  I assume because the cameraVPlay.mouseArea has a handler for the drag event.

 

Can you see a way around this issue?

If it is not possible, I do have another solution by using a slider to zoom in / out instead of pinchZoom, but would prefer to use pinchZoom if possible.

 

I have copied the relevant part of my code below if that helps…

 

Thank you

 

Darren.

 

 

Connections{
        target: levelUI
        onEntityBeingEdited:{//(entityToEdit) - signal recieved with details of entity being edited. Lock camera on this entity
            camera.mouseAreaEnabled = false
            camera.zoom = 1
            camera.centerFreeCameraOn(entityToEdit.x + entityToEdit.width / 2,entityToEdit.y + entityToEdit.height / 2)
        }
        onReturnToLevelEditing:{//entity no longer being edited, back in general level editing. Unlock camera
            camera.mouseAreaEnabled = true
        }

    }

   CameraVPlay {
      id: camera
      maxZoom: 1
      gameWindowSize: Qt.point(gameScene.width,gameScene.height)
      entityContainer: container
      focusedObject: activeLevel.tank_player//this gets changed by my state machine to free mode when level editing 
      allowZoomWithFocus: true
      mouseArea.propagateComposedEvents: true
    }

 

[GüntherFelgo Team]

Hi Darren,

I just followed up on this via email!

Cheers,
Günther