Qt 5 & SFML 2 integration with events

[Simonge]

Hello everyone.

I was working on a level editor, as such I decided to use Qt for native widgets and dialogs.
Unfortunately, SFML-specific events don't work out of the box in Qt 5.

I rolled a hacky solution that translates Qt events into SFML events. Left/right control, shift, system and alt buttons are currently undifferentiated as Qt sees them as one button, but everything else seems to work well.

This is based on the Qt + SFML 1.6 tutorial and this article, I simply got rid of multiple inheritance, added signals instead of forcing the user to inherit from Canvas and added code that translates events.

https://bitbucket.org/Simonge/qsf

[Laurent]

I rolled a hacky solution that translates Qt events into SFML events.

And why don't you just use Qt events directly?

[Simonge]

And why don't you just use Qt events directly?

I wanted to have the ability to try out a level inside of the editor. If I were to use Qt events directly, I would have to implement input logic twice as the game itself doesn't use Qt. Basically, I have a "Play" button inside of the editor that allows me to jump in and check things out without having to "run" the game.