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Thumb Wheel

The QtThumbWheel widget provides a vertical or horizontal thumb-wheel widget.

 

The widget is often used in 2D and 3D applications to control rotation, zooming and scrolling. The rotation of the thumb-wheel is translated into an integer value within a specified range.

 

Documentation:

Classes: Examples:

Tested on:

  • Qt 4.4, 4.5 / Windows XP / MSVC.NET 2005
  • Qt 4.4, 4.5 / Linux / gcc
  • Qt 4.4, 4.5 / MacOS X 10.5 / gcc

Unsupported platforms:

Only the tested platforms are supported, however the classes should be platform independent and are likely to work on the platforms supported by Qt.

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Changes:

  • 2.4: LGPL release.
  • 2.4: Fix: failed to react properly to palette change.
  • 2.4: Misc. minor fixes.
  • 2.3: New feature added: Optionally allow long drags (the wheel keeps turning when dragging out of the widget).
  • 2.3: Fix: memory leak.
  • 2.2: Plugin for Qt Designer fixed.
  • 2.1: Fix rotation when mouse tracking is enabled.
  • 2.0: Ported version 1.3 to Qt 4.
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