Shortcuts and widget keyPressEvent

[rwilliams]

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out how to override a key shortcut. The delete key press should have different behavior if a particular widget has focus. The overloaded keyPressEvent isn't called for that derived widget because it is getting channeled to a shortcut action. If the shortcut action is disabled then the keyPessEvent is called as expected. I'm hoping there is a cleaner way than trying to manage the shortcut enable.

TIA

[mpergand]

Hi;
First thing that comes in mind is to install an event filter and to intercept QEvent::ShortcutOverride:

bool SomeWidget::eventFilter(QObject *obj, QEvent *event)
{
	if(event->type() == QEvent::ShortcutOverride)
        {
        ...
        }

[rwilliams]

Thanks, that appears to be the solution. I install the event filter in the widget's constructor and trap the shortcut delete key in the event filter method. Then accept the event, do the widget's specific handling, and then return true.