I'm in the process of converting my successful screen snipping program from Tkinter to PYQT5. My question is how to create a fully transparent snipping area (a dynamically updating square region would be nice). The outside of the square will be semi-opaque. I've looked all over stack overflow and the internet and could not find an example of this (others are not a fully transparent drawing window). I've attached my code and a picture example of what I am looking for. The "SnippingWidget" is the class that does the snipping logic.
import sys
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QMainWindow, QApplication, QAction, QWidget
from PyQt5.QtGui import QIcon, QKeySequence
from PIL import ImageGrab
class App(QMainWindow):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.initUI()
self.topMenu()
def initUI(self):
self.setWindowTitle('Lil Snippy')
self.setWindowIcon(QIcon('assets/lilSnippyIcon.png'))
self.setGeometry(400, 300, 400, 300)
self.show()
def topMenu(self):
menubar = self.menuBar()
fileMenu = menubar.addMenu('File')
saveAct = QAction(QIcon('assets/saveIcon.png'), 'Save', self)
saveAsAct = QAction(QIcon('assets/saveAsIcon.png'), 'Save As', self)
modeMenu = menubar.addMenu('Mode')
snipAct = QAction(QIcon('assets/cameraIcon.png'), 'Snip', self)
snipAct.setShortcut(QKeySequence('F1'))
snipAct.triggered.connect(self.activateSnipping)
videoAct = QAction(QIcon('assets/videoIcon.png'), 'Video', self)
videoAct.setShortcut('F2')
soundAct = QAction(QIcon('assets/audioIcon.png'), 'Sound', self)
soundAct.setShortcut('F3')
autoAct = QAction(QIcon('assets/automationIcon.png'), 'Automation', self)
autoAct.setShortcut('F4')
helpMenu = menubar.addMenu('Help')
helpAct = QAction(QIcon('assets/helpIcon.png'), 'Help', self)
aboutAct = QAction(QIcon('assets/aboutIcon.png'), 'About', self)
fileMenu.addAction(saveAct)
fileMenu.addAction(saveAsAct)
modeMenu.addAction(snipAct)
modeMenu.addAction(videoAct)
modeMenu.addAction(soundAct)
modeMenu.addAction(autoAct)
helpMenu.addAction(helpAct)
helpMenu.addAction(aboutAct)
def activateSnipping(self):
print("yes")
self.Snipper = SnippingWidget()
application.hide()
class SnippingWidget(QMainWindow):
def __init__(self, parent = None):
super(SnippingWidget, self).__init__(parent)
self.setStyleSheet("background-color: transparent;")
self.setWindowOpacity(.2)
self.showFullScreen()
self.outsideSquareColor = 'red'
self.squareThickness = 4
self.startX = None
self.startY = None
self.endX = None
self.endY = None
self.begin = QtCore.QPoint()
self.end = QtCore.QPoint()
def mousePressEvent(self, event):
self.begin = event.pos()
self.end = self.begin
self.startX = event.x()
self.startY = event.y()
self.update()
def mouseReleaseEvent(self, QMouseEvent):
self.destroy()
x1 = min(self.begin.x(), self.end.x())
y1 = min(self.begin.y(), self.end.y())
x2 = max(self.begin.x(), self.end.x())
y2 = max(self.begin.y(), self.end.y())
img = ImageGrab.grab(bbox=(x1, y1, x2, y2))
img.save('snips/testImage.png')
application.show()
def mouseMoveEvent(self, event):
self.end = event.pos()
self.update()
def paintEvent(self, event):
qp = QtGui.QPainter(self)
qp.setPen(QtGui.QPen(QtGui.QColor('red'), self.squareThickness))
trans = QtGui.QColor(255,255,255,255)
qp.setBrush(trans)
rect = QtCore.QRectF(self.begin, self.end)
qp.drawRect(rect)
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
application = App()
sys.exit(app.exec_())