MainView intercepts MouseArea's cursorShape property

[Dubstar_04]

The MouseArea CursorShape doesnt have any effect.

Docs Here: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-mousearea.html

Expected Behavour:
Mouse image shows selected Qt cursor

Experienced Behavour:
The regular arrow is displayed.

Example Code:

import QtQuick 2.4
import Ubuntu.Components 1.3

MainView {
    objectName: "mainView"
    applicationName: "mouseTest"

    width: units.gu(100)
    height: units.gu(75)

    Rectangle{
        anchors.fill: parent
        color: UbuntuColors.coolGrey

        MouseArea{
            anchors.fill: parent
            cursorShape: Qt.CrossCursor
            hoverEnabled: true
            onClicked: console.log("In MouseArea")
        }
    }
}

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

Adding unity8 & qtubuntu as I think this is more in there, not uitk

[Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader)]

Some ubuntu-ui-toolkit component muse be eating or overriding that MouseArea's cursor.

If you have a qml file just with that inner Rectangle + MouseArea it works fine:

"""
import QtQuick 2.4
import Ubuntu.Components 1.3

MainView {
    objectName: "mainView"
    applicationName: "mouseTest"

    width: units.gu(100)
    height: units.gu(75)

    Page {
        header: PageHeader {
            id: pageHeader
            title: i18n.tr("Cursor Test")
        }

        Rectangle{
            anchors.fill: parent
            color: UbuntuColors.coolGrey

            MouseArea{
                anchors.fill: parent
                cursorShape: Qt.CrossCursor
                hoverEnabled: true
                onClicked: console.log("In MouseArea")

            }
        }
    }
}
"""

[Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader)]

To be clear:
A QQuickItem::cursor() must trickle all the way to down QWindow::cursor() so that shell can see it.

Either Page or MainView is interfering in that process.

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

Ok. Thanks Daniel. Tracked it down to the MainView. Updating title and example code.

[Dubstar_04 (dubstar-04)]

I have removed the MP until I can find a proper solution.

[Dubstar_04 (dubstar-04)]

In summary the issue appears to the the mouse area [1] blocking the mouse events making it to mainview.

I haven't arrived at a sensible solution that maintains the current functionality yet. Suggestions welcome.

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sdk-team/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/staging/view/head:/src/Ubuntu/PerformanceMetrics/PerformanceOverlay.qml#L111

[Kugi Eusebio (kugi-igi)]

I experienced this as well. When I try to do it within a page, listview, etc. the cursor doesn't change but if I do it within dialogs, it does work. Haven't tried with other Popovers but possibly the work on those as well.

[Dubstar_04 (dubstar-04)]

I will try and have another look at this in the next couple of weeks.

[Dubstar_04 (dubstar-04)]

I have unassigned myself as I just don't know when I am going to get time to have a proper look at the issue and its too important to delay a fix.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Doesn't appear to be a problem anymore - I see the cross shaped mouse pointer running the example snippet with qmlscene or ubuntu-ui-toolkit-launcher, with staging/ Xenial/ Qt 5.6.