Capturing mouse movement over a MapView

Question

Is there any way to capture the mouse movement over a MapView?

The mousePositionChanged signal documentation is slightly mis-leading, because it only fires when the mouse button is held down while the mouse is moved. I'm looking for a signal similar to the onPositionChanged signal of a MouseArea.

I tried placing a MouseArea over my mapview, but then nothing propagates through to the MapView, i.e. can't pan or click (although mouse wheel zooming seems to work!?). I tried manually triggering all the MapView mouse signals (e.g. whenever the mouse area pressed signal fires I called mapView.mousePressed(mouse) etc) but still couldn't pan/move the map around.

So I guess I'm asking for either of two things:

1) a way to capture the mouse hover movement over a MapView so I don't have to use a MouseArea at all (my preference)

2) a way to place a MouseArea over a MapView to capture the mouse hover movement but still be able to navigate the map underneath.

mousePositionChanged(MouseEvent mouse)

Emitted when the mouse is moved over the GeoView.

LucasDanzinger · Accepted Answer

Looks like we need to add some clarification to our doc. You can accomplish this with a MouseArea and accepting the mouse events to let everything propagate through. MapView { id: mapView anchors.fill: parent // add a map to the mapview Map { // add the BasemapTopographic basemap to the map BasemapTopographic {} } MouseArea { id: mouseArea anchors.fill: parent hoverEnabled: true onMouseXChanged: { console.log(mouse.x, mouse.y) } onPressed: mouse.accepted = false } }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍