QShortcuts catch external shortcuts from ReadOnly textedit

nutrx

Just a quick question: I am declaring manual shortcuts in a widget

        copy_shortcut = QShortcut(QKeySequence.Copy, self)
        copy_shortcut.activated.connect(self.copy)

and I noticed that this also catches those performed when I'm focused on a text edit which is ReadOnly. Which isn't what I want, I want the focused widget to process the event. It works when the text edit is editable, but doesn't when its readonly. I also tried calling

        textedit.setFocusPolicy(Qt.ClickFocus)

which didn't help. How can I do this?
Thanks

SGaist

Hi,

Can you provide a full minimal script that shows that behaviour ?
From your snippet it's not clear how you are setting everything up.

nutrx

from PySide2.QtWidgets import QMainWindow, QApplication, QWidget, QVBoxLayout, QPlainTextEdit, QShortcut, QPushButton
from PySide2.QtGui import QKeySequence, QGuiApplication
import sys


class CatchingWidget(QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent):
        super().__init__(parent)

        copy_shortcut = QShortcut(QKeySequence.Copy, self)
        copy_shortcut.activated.connect(self.copy)

        self.setLayout(QVBoxLayout())
        self.layout().addWidget(QPushButton())

    def copy(self):
        print('copy in widget!')
        QGuiApplication.clipboard().setText(self.hasFocus())


class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

        l = QVBoxLayout()
        l.addWidget(CatchingWidget(self))
        textedit = QPlainTextEdit('some text I would like to copy', self)
        textedit.setReadOnly(True)
        l.addWidget(textedit)

        w = QWidget()
        w.setLayout(l)
        self.setCentralWidget(w)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication()
    mw = MainWindow()
    mw.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

This has a widget at the top, the textedit below. If you try to copy text from it using ctrl+c, still the upper widget's copy method is triggered instead, even if it doesn't have focus.

nutrx

this is still really annoying, is this a bug or am I just missing sth? I didn't find anything regarding this in the docs so far. Also found this old bugreport

SGaist

What if you set the shortcut context to Qt.WidgetWithChildrenShortcut ?