would like to know whether QGraphicsView has an active rubberband

it would be useful if I could ask the view whether it has a rubberband active.

My GraphicsScene creates a new GraphicsItem in mouseReleaseEvent(), however if the user has used a rubberband to select multiple items then this is the wrong behavior. So what I do now is to intercept mousePressEvent(), remember scenePos() and in mouseReleaseEvent() I check whether the mouse has moved between press and release. If it has, the scene won't create a new item. However, this is not very elegant, instead it would be good if the scene could find out whether the mouseReleaseEvent is due to any of the views having a rubberband...

alternatively if there was a method in GraphicsView which is called prior to creating the rubberband and then another one when the rubberband is closed that would be ok as well.

alternatively if there was a method in GraphicsView to find out what state the view is in, that would also be ok.