I have a QMainWindow with a menubar. I need that menu to be focused by default and the user navigate through the menu.
By default it is required to press the Alt key to jump to the menu bar. I've tried to simulate the Alt key in QMainWindow constructor, but it doesn't work :
QKeyEvent *ev = new QKeyEvent(QEvent::KeyPress,Qt::Key_Alt,Qt::NoModifier);
QCoreApplication::postEvent(qApp->focusWindow(),ev);
Also I've tried to get focus to the menu by setFocus() member function of QMenu and it doesn't work either.
How can I make the menubar focused by default so that the user can navigate through the menu from beginning without the need to press the Alt key?
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I am using QT 4.8 and C++ and I need a default push button which will be pressed when some text are input in a lineEdit and ENTER key is pressed.
According to the QT document for the property "default" of pushbutton.
the behavior is only for dialogs.
"The default button behavior is provided only in dialogs. Buttons can always be clicked from the keyboard by pressing Spacebar when the button has focus."
How can I have this behavior for a widget, which is a container for all my GUI components.
Thanks.
You can connect the signal QLineEdit::returnPressed() to the slot QAbstractButton::click().
Method 1
from the Designer you simply can:
Right-click on lineEdit
Select "Go to slot..."
Choose returnPressed():
Press ok
In the code view you will see the slot connected to the chosen signal
You can simply call the click() slot of a button you need:
Method 2
You can manually connect signal of any lineEdit to a slot of any pushButton:
In Qt 4 syntax:
connect(ui->lineEdit, SIGNAL(returnPressed()),
ui->anyButton, SLOT(click()));
In new Qt 5 syntax:
connect(ui->lineEdit, &QLineEdit::returnPressed,
ui->anyButton, &QPushButton::click);
I created the shortcut events, such as:
new QShortcut(QKeySequence(Qt::CTRL + Qt::Key_Q), this, SLOT(close()));
But now I would like to show "Ctrl+Q" in the menu entry here:
How do I do that? I don't seem to find a way to do that in Qt Creator.
You can set the shortcut keys in the QtDesigner in the 'Action Editor' (Tab at the bottom, the 'Signal/Slot Editor' tab is selected by default).
Here all defined QActions are listed. A double click on a field in the 'shortcut' column will open the wanted dialog.
This will add the shortcut to the QAction (create triggered events) and set it as visibile text, e.g. in the menu entry (only visible in the application, not in QtDesigner).
In the 'Property Editor' are more options for the 'shortcuts' (e.g. make them translatable).
Generally you would use QAction class for this, so you would have a QMenu to which you will add actions, in your case CLOSE. Then you can use SetShortcut to add "CTRL + Q" in menu.
pNewAction->setShortcut(QString(strAccel.c_str()));
where pNewAction is of type QAction.
I have an QDialog class say 'OptionsClass' to display a dialog for options for my Application.
I have designed it in Qt Designer & the object of that class is created in the constructor of my QMainWindow inherited class by new & it is deleted in the destructor (I think this helps in quickly loading the Dialog when button is clicked). Whenever the options button is clicked I am calling a function in OptionsClass which basically edits some text in QLabel & after that calling show(). There are 3 QRadioButton's also in the QDialog class.
When I open the dialog for the 1st time in my application's startup the radio button's are unchecked. Now say i check any button & close the dialog. Now if I again open the Dialog then still that radio button is checked. I want that everytime I open the Dialog all the radio button's should be unchecked.
Here's the SLOT for the button which is clicked to open the Dialog:
void MyMainWindow::on_actionCut_triggered()
{
optionsObj->init(n, 'x');
optioobjn->show();
}
Here is a snippet of the function init:
void OptionsClass::init(int n, char c)
{
//some settings to edit the QLabel
ui->radio1->setChecked(false);
ui->radio2->setChecked(false);
ui->radio3->setChecked(false);
}
I have tried with other properties like SetDown(), SetChecked(), etc but still it doesnt work. What am I doing wrong?
In order to prevent your button from resetting, you need to do
radio-> setAutoExclusive(false);
Then you can uncheck. Don't forget to turn autoExclusive on again.
AutoExclusive is normally off for other abstract buttons, but on for Radio buttons.
My goal is to have two buttons, "Cancel" and "Connect", and to have Cancel be the default button when the user presses ENTER. I also want the user to be able to TAB to the next button ("Connect") and press ENTER and have "Connect" get pushed. Here's my code:
QPushButton * cancelButton = new QPushButton(tr("&Cancel"));
cancelButton->setAutoDefault(true);
cancelButton->setDefault(true);
cancelButton->setFocus();
QPushButton * continueButton = new QPushButton(tr("Co&nnect"));
continueButton->setAutoDefault(true);
continueButton->setDefault(false);
ui->buttonBox->addButton(cancelButton, QDialogButtonBox::RejectRole);
ui->buttonBox->addButton(continueButton, QDialogButtonBox::AcceptRole);
Setting the Cancel button to the the default button doesn't actually seem to work.
Setting the autoDefault property on all the butons seems to be necessary in allow the buttons to get pushed after pressing TAB and ENTER for example. This seems to jive with the documentation for autoDefault. However, the documentation for the default property seems to indicate that the default button will get pushed only if there are no buttons that have the autoDefault property set. Otherwise, the button that gets pushed when ENTER is pressed will be the currently selected autoDefault button. So it seems like what I need to do is to make the cancelButton have focus by default, but I can't seem to figure out how to do this.
You have to call cancelButton->setFocus(); after adding the buttons to the QDialogButtonBox, not before.
Try adding below line before you call dialog->show
button->isEnabled(true)
In my QMenuBar, I have several menus.
One of those menus has a QWidgetAction in it.
It shows up fine, but the problem is that once the user completes his input, I want the menu to disappear (as is the normal behavior for a classical QAction).
However, I am not sure on how to do that. In my QWidgetAction, there is a button the user presses when he is done; I can therefore bind to this button's clicked() signal.
In the slot, I tried to setFocus() an element outside the menu but the menu still doesn't disappear.
How to tell the menu to close itself when my users finish interacting with the QWidgetAction?
Thanks
QMenu inherits QWidget, so calling yourMenu->hide() should do the work.
Hope this helps.