Unable to modify QGraphicsTextItem text contents interactively

Sridharan

I have individual subclass for QGraphicsView, QGraphicScene and QGraphicTextItem. I have added 'QGraphicTextItem' subclass object to scene and called the function setTextInteractionFlags(Qt::TextEditorInteraction).
But, I am unable to edit the text content. I feel like keyboard inputs are not honored by my sub-classes. I added debug statement in keyPressEvent() functions in subclass of QGraphicsView and QGraphicTextItem but they are not executed

Later, I have tried with actual Qt class (not my subclass). It works fine. What changes needed in sub-classes to get events from keyboard ?

Sridharan

@JonB
[Solved]
In my GraphicsView constructor, setFocusPolicy(Qt::NoFocus) is set. After changing it to Qt::StrongFocus, it worked

SGaist

Hi,

Without any code it's hard to tell. One of the usual suspect: are you calling the base class implementation of the methods you override ?

Sridharan

@SGaist
Yes, I call base class implementation.

QGraphicsTextItem textItem("Text data");
textItem.setFlags(QGraphicsItem::ItemIsSelectable | QGraphicsItem::ItemIsMovable | QGraphicsItem::ItemIsFocusable);
textItem.setTextInteractionFlags(Qt::TextEditorInteraction);

And I have added this text item to scene

JonB

@Sridharan
The code shown adds a QGraphicsTextItem. You said your problem arises when you subclass QGraphicsTextItem. Are we to presume your actual code uses YourGraphicsTextItem textItem("Text data") to create the item?

And this code is not what is needed when overriding a method, it does not show the base class method being called from the subclass's override.

So... unless you show the actual code you are using in your subclass overridden methods we cannot say if you are doing it right. Certainly if it is as shown it is quite wrong.

Sridharan

@JonB
[Solved]
In my GraphicsView constructor, setFocusPolicy(Qt::NoFocus) is set. After changing it to Qt::StrongFocus, it worked