[PyQt] QLineEdit vs. menu keyboard shortcuts

[Nathan Weston]

On 6/28/2011 2:17 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 June 2011, 19:56:35 Nathan Weston wrote:
> If you're subclassing QLineEdit anyway, what does stop you from
> overriding keyPressEvent to catch and accept() any unwanted key
> presses?

I can certainly do that, but it doesn't cause my QActions to trigger. I 
could intercept specific shortcuts and manually trigger the QActions, 
but then my QLineEdit subclass has to know about all the menu items, 
which is pretty ugly.

The interaction between QAction shortcuts and widget-specific shortcuts 
is a little strange. I've written a little test program: it's a 
QMainWindow with some menu items and a QLineEdit subclass as the central 
widget.

The first menu item has Ctrl+R as its shortcut, which doesn't clash with 
anything in QLineEdit. If I type Ctrl+R, the action intercepts the 
keypress event *before* QLineEdit gets it -- I never see a keyPressEvent.

The menu item shortcut has Ctrl+Z as a shortcut. If I type Ctrl+Z, the 
QLineEdit gets a keyPressEvent, which causes an undo of the text. If I 
ignore() the event, it disables the undo behavior, but my QAction still 
doesn't fire.

I've attached my program. If you press Ctrl+Z it will print 'Foo 
keyPress 16777249' (for the Ctrl) and 'Foo keyPress 90' (for the Z). If 
you press Ctrl+R it just prints 'action' from the slot connected to my 
QAction.

Does anyone understand what's going on under the hood here?

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