EventFilter Print Screen key?

[jnewing]

Hey all so I've setup a simple eventfilter to run a few tests on capturing keyboard input to build a QKeySequence, here it what I have setup

.cpp file
@test::test(QWidget *parent) : QWidget(parent), ui(new Ui::Options)
{
ui->setupUi(this);
ui->txtHotkey->installEventFilter(this);
}

bool test::eventFilter(QObject *obj, QEvent *event)
{
if (event->type() == QEvent::KeyPress)
{
QKeyEvent keyEvent = static_cast<QKeyEvent>(event);

    qDebug() << "key int: " << keyEvent->key();
}

return QWidget::eventFilter(obj, event);

}@

Now this works great for almost all keys however nothing happens when I press the "Print Screen" key on my keyboard why is this? as this is one of the keys I would really like to grab.

[tucnak]

Hi, ~jnewing!

Problem not in you - problem is in OS'es. They are not allowing to catch PrintScreen key press event.

But there are a few solutions specified for systems' API's