[Solved] Where to intercept (mac os) QFileOpenEvent ?
-
I'm getting my Qt app working on Mac OS now (it's running nicely on Windows). So, I want to open documents which the user double-clicks on in the Finder, which means responding to QFileOpen events. All fine.
I've read the QCoreApplication docs (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qcoreapplication.html#notify) and I suppose an override of QApplication::notify() should be the preferred option. However, I don't currently have a sub-class of QApplication in my project, so I'm thinking to implement QObject::event() for my QMainWindow sub-class. Yes, basically I'm lazy*.
So, the question I have really, is, does anyone have any suggestion as to where best to intercept these events ? Since I don't really understand the event handling routes within Qt, I'm not sure if this would be a lot less efficient** than implementing a QApplication sub-class. I'm sure it will make very little difference in terms of the structure of the classes in my design. But if it saves a few ops if I do a bit more typing, it all goes to save the planet…Tim
- I like to think, efficient
** I don't see why my apps cannot be lazy too :-)
- I like to think, efficient
-
Hi,
Long time since I played with that but IIRC, you can simply handle it in the event function of e.g. your QMainWindow subclass
-
bq. handle it in the event function of e.g. your QMainWindow subclass
Apparently not, it seems. At least, that's what I tried, but the event never gets that far. In the docs for QFileOpenEvent, it specifically states that the event is sent to the QApplication::instance(). And I guess it stops there...
So, I bit the bullet, sub-classed QApplication, and overrode event(), sending it directly to my QMainWIndow. It's not pretty :-
@bool PGazetteApp::event( QEvent * a_pEvent)
{
// Intercept FileOpen events
if( a_pEvent && a_pEvent->type()==QEvent::FileOpen )
{ // Send file open events to the Main Window
QWindowList WinList( topLevelWindows() );
QWindowList::iterator pIt = WinList.begin();
if( pIt == WinList.end() )
return false;QWindow * pMainWin( *pIt );
return sendEvent( pMainWin, a_pEvent );
}
return QApplication::event( a_pEvent );
}
@
