[QScintilla] Shift+Tab for unindent

[Phil Thompson]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:50:44 -0600, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:19:49 +0200, Андрей <hlamer at tut.by> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Scintilla uses Shift+Tab for unindent by default. But, if I press it
in
>>> Qt4/QScintilla application, focus jumps to another widget, because Qt
>> uses
>>> Shift+Tab for move focus.
>>>
>>> I checked qt4 example - Shift+Tab doesn't work here, but works in the
>> GTK
>>> scite.
>>>
>>> How to resolve this situation?
>>
>> It will be fixed in tonight's snapshot.
>>
>> You can also apply the fix in your application by reimplementing
>> keyPressEvent(), check to see if the key pressed is Key_Backtab and, if
>> so,
>> update the event so that it appears to be a Key_Tab with the shift
>> modifier, then call the original keyPressEvent().
> 
> I've done this:
> 
>     def keyPressEvent(self, event):
>         if event.key() == Qt.Key_Backtab:
>             event.ignore()
>             newev = QKeyEvent(event.type(), Qt.Key_Tab,
Qt.ShiftModifier)
>             super(MessageEntry, self).keyPressEvent(newev)
>         else:
>             super(MessageEntry, self).keyPressEvent(event)
> 
> And it does do the back shift, but then the qsci widget loses focus.
> Is there a way to avoid that?

Call event.accept() rather than event.ignore()?

Phil