ignore shift to move between edit text

[JonB]

@rest
At some level I think you're telling us that your bar code scanner generates key events for the characters it meets?...

I guess SHIFT itself raises a CWidget::keyPressEvent? So (given what you're doing), you better make your keyPressEvent code look to see if its the SHIFT key and not do the focus swap in that case. Your focus swap code is what is causing it to act like TAB.

I suspect apart from that that your approach is wrong, but the above is to answer your question as to why it behaves as it does..

[rest]

@JonB so how you think i should approach this? i still think i need the keypressevent .. i don't have so much experience with working with qt and events

[mrjj]

Hi
Did you use debugger and check what key combination that makes it
"tab" to next edit ?
I wondering if the jump happens when u pass the key to
ui->leInformation->KeyPressEvent(event);
(then we can maybe do different, like remove shift)

[rest]

@mrjj i will make some debugging now, but is not about that cause i commented ui->leInformation->KeyPressEvent(event); and is the same

[mrjj]

@rest
if you dont forward the keys at all , it still jumps ?
Ok, it sounds like the input trigger key navigation.

I assume you are using an USB scanner in hid keyboard mode.

You might want to install event filter on Application to find out what is going on.
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qobject.html#installEventFilter

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26368659/qwidget-how-to-receive-keypressevent-inside-child-widgets

Its hard to suggest what to do when we dont really know why input makes it focus next control.

[rest]

so i made some debugging and when shift is pressed he gets inside my if and changes focus

[rest]

but witch one of the variables gets me the key pressed? i tried something like this !event->key() == Qt::ShiftModifier and doesnt work, there is another way to check?

[mrjj]

@rest said in ignore shift to move between edit text:

Qt::ShiftModifier

if(event->modifiers() & Qt::ShiftModifier){...}

[rest]

@mrjj thank you so much, i will try everything and see what works

[JonB]

@rest
Be careful: I'm thinking you will get one event for just the SHIFT press, and then Qt::ShiftModifier will also still be true for the event which arrives for the B.

I don't get the whole intention of what you're trying to achieve with your code. You decide where input is to go based on:

if(focusWidget() == ui->lePath && !ui->lePath->text().isEmpty())

Why? What's the logic here? What's the idea of switching focus here?

[rest]

@JonB if i scanned a barcode means that focus is on first edit and he is not empty means i should change focus on second edit for scanning there, this is what i thought i don t have so much experience on this i don t really know how i can make this work

[mrjj]

@rest
How do you know first barcode data is 100% received ?
Since it comes key pr key. Is there an end of input char ?

[JonB]

@rest
But aren't you saying the "key presses for the barcode" are for each letter? When the second key arrives in lePath (it has the focus, and it's no longer empty), won't your code send it to leInformation?

[rest]

No, i dont have something like that .. i don t know how to check this.. gets so difficult. first i had just one edit text and everything worked fine..

[rest]

@JonB what you mean with second key? everything is well until the uppercase gets in, if i scan only digits everything is fine for both edits

[mrjj]

You can try to use only click focus and not strong focus.

[rest]

I realised i was doing something not necessary and my key event exactly checking that shift so i put my setfocus for first edit text in constructor and verified in key pressed event if event->text is empty to ignore it.