Overlay widget for Phonon VideoWidget

If you need put any widget over VideoWidget with transparent background, you can’t do it so:

You got black background for your widget, It happens because phonon backend might use XRender for video rendering.

Bellow example of workaround, which can help you:

This is subclass of Phonon::VideoWidget with overrided events methods.

Usage example:

Main idea of this workaround is set to overlayed widget ToolTip window flag and connect move, resize, etc events of both objects.

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