make QLabel clickable using PyQt5

Question

I have a Qlabel filled with QPixmap and I want to start a process/function once this label clicked. I had extended QLabel class as follows:

from PyQt5.QtCore         


        

Answer 1

I do not understand why you pass QMouseEvent to the parent constructor, you must pass the parent attribute as shown below:

class QLabel_alterada(QLabel):
    clicked=pyqtSignal()
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QLabel.__init__(self, parent)

    def mousePressEvent(self, ev):
        self.clicked.emit()

To avoid having problems with imports we can directly promote the widget as shown below:

We place a QLabel and right click and choose Promote to ...:

We get the following dialog and place the QLABEL2.h in header file and QLabel_changed in Promoted class Name, then press Add and Promote

Then we generate the .ui file with the help of pyuic. Obtaining the following structure:

├── main.py
├── QLABEL2.py
└── Ui_main.ui

Obtaining the following structure:

class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QtWidgets.QMainWindow.__init__(self, parent)
        self.ui = Ui_MainWindow()
        self.ui.setupUi(self)
        self.ui.label.clicked.connect(self.dosomestuff) 

    def dosomestuff(self):
        print("click")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
    w = MainWindow()
    w.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

Answer 2

class ClickableLabel(QtWidgets.QLabel):
    def __init__(self, whenClicked, parent=None):
        QtWidgets.QLabel.__init__(self, parent)
        self._whenClicked = whenClicked

    def mouseReleaseEvent(self, event):
        self._whenClicked(event)

and then:

        my_label = ClickableLabel(self.my_label_clicked)
...
    def my_label_clicked(self, event):
        button = event.button()
        modifiers = event.modifiers()

        if modifiers == Qt.NoModifier and button == Qt.LeftButton:
            logger.debug('my_label_clicked: hooray!')
            return

        LOGGER.debug('my_label_clicked: unhandled %r', event)