[PyQt] Disabling a key event

[Gustavo A. Díaz]

Thanks David!! I've forgot that method...
That worked very good.

Cheers.

2007/10/18, David Boddie <dboddie at trolltech.com>:
>
> On Thu Oct 18 03:22:32 BST 2007, Gustavo A. Díaz wrote:
>
> > What i want to do this time, is to disable a key event in my app. For
> > example i want to avoid closing the app by pressing ALT + F4:
> >
> > def keyPressEvent(self, event):
> >         if event.key() == QtCore.Qt.Key_F4 and (event.modifiers() &
> >         QtCore.Qt.AltModifier):
> >             # DO Nothing. How?
> >
> > So, which action or code i should implement in place of "# DO Nothing.
> How?"
>
> If you want to stop key events from being passed on to other widgets, just
> accept the key event with event.accept().
>
> If you want to intercept events at a higher level, you'll need to start
> looking at event filters. The event model is described in detail in a Qt
> Quarterly article from 2004:
>
>   http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq11-events.html
>
> On the other hand, if you just want to stop the window from being closed
> by
> the window system, you should reimplement closeEvent() in your main window
> and explicitly ignore the event passed to it:
>
>   def closeEvent(self, event):
>       event.ignore()
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> David
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> David Boddie
> Lead Technical Writer, Trolltech ASA
>
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