[PyKDE] Need to know "who" triggers a callback?

Gordon Tyler gordon at doxxx.net
Tue Nov 18 16:53:01 GMT 2003


kscalet wrote:
> Gordon Tyler wrote:
> 
>> kscalet wrote:
>>
>>> what would be the best approach in finding out, if a signal is send 
>>> due to a "real" gui action
>>> like key-presses and mouse-clicks, or due to a programmatic action 
>>> like setButton,
>>> setCurrentText, etc on a specific widget.
>>> It's often needed to trigger some action only in the former case, so 
>>> I assume, there is an easy
>>> way to find out the "source" of action, but did not find it out myself.
>>
>> http://doc.trolltech.com/3.2/qobject.html#sender
> 
> This looks more like a solution to my 2nd problem.
> Or is there some more info I can get from the sender
> (activated by gui-clicking / activated by set-function)?
> As of Phil, there isn't.

What are you actually trying to accomplish here? What is the specific case?

>> http://doc.trolltech.com/3.2/qsignalmapper.html 
> 
> If I understand this correctly, it would give me a nice way
> to, say, map 3 QButtons (no data!) to one slot.

Yep.

Ciao,
Gordon




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