Pyqt get pixel position and value when mouse click on the image

Question

Hello,

Overwriting mouse event on pixMapItem didn't work for me ; the mouse click event is not detected by the pixMapItem. Here is my code :

import sys from PyQt4.QtCore import * from PyQt4.QtGui import *

class DrawImage( QMainWindow ): def init(self, path):

    QMainWindow.__init__(self)
    self.setWindowTitle('Select Window')
    self.local_image = QImage(path)

    self.local_grview = QGraphicsView()
    self.setCentralWidget( self.local_grview )

    self.local_scene = QGraphicsScene()

    self.image_format = self.local_image.format()
    self.pixMapItem = self.local_scene.addPixmap( QPixmap(self.local_image) )
    self.local_grview.setScene( self.local_scene )




    self.pixMapItem.mousePressEvent = self.pixelSelect

    self.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

def pixelSelect( self, event ):
    print 'hello'
    position = QPoint( event.pos().x(),  event.pos().y())
    color = QColor.fromRgb(self.local_image.pixel( position ) )
    if color.isValid():
        rgbColor = '('+str(color.red())+','+str(color.green())+','+str(color.blue())+','+str(color.alpha())+')'
        self.setWindowTitle( 'Pixel position = (' + str( event.pos().x() ) + ' , ' + str( event.pos().y() )+ ') - Value (R,G,B,A)= ' + rgbColor)
    else:
        self.setWindowTitle( 'Pixel position = (' + str( event.pos().x() ) + ' , ' + str( event.pos().y() )+ ') - color not valid')    

Answer 1

I've tried your code, I believe you could get it working if change

self.pixMapItem = self.local_scene.addPixmap( QPixmap(self.local_image) )

line to

self.pixMapItem = QGraphicsPixmapItem(QPixmap(self.local_image), None, self.local_scene)

below is a full version of your code which worked fine for me:

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from PyQt4.QtCore import * 

class DrawImage(QMainWindow): 
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(QMainWindow, self).__init__(parent)

        self.setWindowTitle('Select Window')
        self.local_image = QImage('image_file_name.JPG')

        self.local_grview = QGraphicsView()
        self.setCentralWidget( self.local_grview )

        self.local_scene = QGraphicsScene()

        self.image_format = self.local_image.format()
        #self.pixMapItem = self.local_scene.addPixmap( QPixmap(self.local_image) )
        self.pixMapItem = QGraphicsPixmapItem(QPixmap(self.local_image), None, self.local_scene)

        self.local_grview.setScene( self.local_scene )

        self.pixMapItem.mousePressEvent = self.pixelSelect

    def pixelSelect( self, event ):
        print 'hello'
        position = QPoint( event.pos().x(),  event.pos().y())
        color = QColor.fromRgb(self.local_image.pixel( position ) )
        if color.isValid():
            rgbColor = '('+str(color.red())+','+str(color.green())+','+str(color.blue())+','+str(color.alpha())+')'
            self.setWindowTitle( 'Pixel position = (' + str( event.pos().x() ) + ' , ' + str( event.pos().y() )+ ') - Value (R,G,B,A)= ' + rgbColor)
        else:
            self.setWindowTitle( 'Pixel position = (' + str( event.pos().x() ) + ' , ' + str( event.pos().y() )+ ') - color not valid')


def main():
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    form = DrawImage()
    form.show()
    app.exec_()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

hope this helps, regards

Answer 2

self.local_image = QImage('image_file_name.JPG')

I have been trying to put an image path from my local drive and it just doesn´t work...

self.local_image = QImage('C:\\Desktop\\Image_001.jpg')

What am I missing ?