Link - middle button click

tomko222

I am trying to write a simple tab browser and everything is working ok but I have problem in implementing opening link in tab by clicking on it with the middle mouse button. I don't know in what way I should check if link was clicked by left button or middle button?

What I have already tried:
I have set
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webView->page()->setLinkDelegationPolicy(QWebPage::DelegateAllLinks);
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Then I used linkClicked signal
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connect(webView->page(), SIGNAL(linkClicked(QUrl)), this, SLOT(linkClickedSlot(QUrl)));
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but in this slot I don't know how to check what button was clicked. So I thought to reimplement mousePressEvent in QWebView:
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void WebView::mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent *event)
{
//checking what mouse button was clicked (left, middle, right)
if(event->button() == Qt::LeftButton)
{
lastClickedMouseButton = 0;//left 0
}else if(event->button() == Qt::MidButton)
{
lastClickedMouseButton = 1;//middle 1
}else if(event->button() == Qt::RightButton)
{
lastClickedMouseButton = 2;//right 2
}
}
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and then check lastClickedMouseButton value in linkClickedSlot
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void Tab::linkClickedSlot(QUrl url)
{
if(webView->lastClickedMouseButton == 0)//left button
{
qDebug("left button clicked");
webView->setUrl(url);//opening clicked link in this page

}else if(webView->lastClickedMouseButton == 1)//middle button
{
    qDebug("middle button clicked");
    //creating new tab with clicked link
    //will be added later
}else if(webView->lastClickedMouseButton == 2)//right button
{
    qDebug("right button clicked");
}else
{
    qDebug("unknown button clicked");
}

}
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And it is more-less working - when I click once it is not working but it is working when I click fast few times... How should I check if the left or middle button was clicked in the correct way?

raven-worx

no since QtWebkit drops the mousebutton/mouseevent information at some point and doesn't pass them back through the Qt API.
So your way with storing the last pressed mousebutton is the only solution i would say.

But instead connecting to the linkedClicked signal i recommend reimplementing of QWebPage::acceptNavigationRequest():
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bool MyWebPage::acceptNavigationRequest(QWebFrame * frame, const QNetworkRequest & request, QWebPage::NavigationType type)
{
if( type == QWebPage::NavigationTypeLinkClicked && lastClickedMouseButton == 1 ) //middle mouse button was pressed
{
emit openUrlInNewTab( request->url() ); //open new tab with url
return false;
}
else
return QWebPage::acceptNavigationRequest(frame, request, type);
}
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