widget "leave" event /"focus out" event
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Hello,
[Im using QT 5.13.1 on Win 10 64bit with VS plugin 2.4.2]
I have a groupbox containing several spinboxes. My intension is that I get a message box when groupebox losses the focus (if values in the spinboxes are changed since entering the groupbox (focus in)).
a) Since a QGroubBox is also a QWidget and this should have the events "focus in" and "focus out" I am wondering why they are not fired.
b) As a workaround of a) I use the "leave" event instead, but in my eventfilter I get an infinite loop of leave events and finaly a program crash. The reason is that the message box that I open causes the groupbox to fire a leave event again but the event was already fired otherwise I would not be in the eventfilter.bool Application::eventFilter(QObject* object, QEvent* event)
{
printf("event = %d\n", event->type());
if ((object == groupbox) && (event->type() == QEvent::Leave)) // FocusOut is not fired so can't use it here
{
// event->accept(); // uncomment this line does not help
// qApp->processEvents(); // uncomment this line does not help
if (data changed)
{
int btn = QMessageBox::question(...);
if (btn == QMessageBox::Ok)
slot_roi_pb_accept();
if (btn == QMessageBox::No)
slot_roi_pb_cancel();
}
}
return QWidget::eventFilter(object, event); // apply default filter
}My questions:
- Why does a groupebox does not fire events like "focus in" and "focus out"?
- How can an object be left when it is already left when it is not entered in between?
- Is there any known solution for my problem?
BTW: The leave event is fired at the wrong time when leaving the groupebox with a pressed mouse key. It is fired when releasing the mouse key and not when leaving the area of the widget!!! Why?
Thanks a lot
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Hi,
Because there's nothing to focus on a QGroupBox. Moving the mouse over a widget won't give it focus unless you made it so.
However, your design is a bit surprising, why not use the valueChanged signal of the QSpinBox to detect a change ?
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Hello SGaist,
I did not expect to have or lose focus when only moving the mouse over it but when I have the focus in a spinbos inside the groupebox and then I click somewhere outside I would expect that spinbox and all parents lose this focus.
In my opinion a relation of objects in child parent hirachie like the controls we are talking about should behave like this. If a spinbox inside the area of a groupebox but not being a child of it (not nested) losses focus I would not expect that groupebox losses also a focus but in the case I have I expact that.My design is so "suprising" because I have several spinboxes and I dont want to validate each of this seperatly but at a certain time all together. In fact I have slots for all of them connected to valueChanged(int) but I do not want to get a confirm dialog for each value changed.
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Why would the parent lose a focus it didn't have in the first place ?
In any case, with your additional explanations, I understand better what you want which makes it way less "surprising".
Are all your controls grouped in group boxes ?
