How can I make QDateTimeEdit not focusable but enabled

roseicollis

Hi,
I'm making a gui app on Qt 4.8.5 with a wizard structure interactive only with keyboard. In one screen, I have:

a LineEdit (firstLE),
a qdatetimeedit (my_qdt)
and another lineEdit (secondLE).

FirstLE has a text on it just to show to the user while my_qdt has the actual date and time. So the thing is that the user must put something on secondLE. For that I use secondLE->setFocus() on myWizardPAge::InitializePage() but the focus is always on firstLE and also, if I press TAB I can go to the qDateTimeEdit elements.

What I want is that the user can only be on secondLE. I've tried with my_qdt->setEnable(false) but then the user see it in grey and I don't want that, I want it with its colors.

Thank you so much

Jeroentjehome

Set the QDateEdit widget on readOnly ;-)
It's a property of the QAbstractSpinBox that is inherited

roseicollis

Sorry forgot to mention it. I also tried it of course but I still can access to each member with tab (to the day, month, hour.. etc).

The thing is that in the initialize page I set:

    secondLE->setFocus();
    firstLE->setReadOnly(true);
    my_qdt>setReadOnly(true);

But when the page starts the focus is on firstLE and I can access all elements of qdt. I can't edit them but if I press Tab I go through them and what I want is that the user stays on secondLE and with tab goes only to the wizard buttons and back again to secondLE whithout passing through firstLE or my_qdt

SGaist

Hi,

IIRC, you should be able to achieve that using setTabOrder

Hope it helps

roseicollis

Hi SGaist,

If I use it this way for example:

setTabOrder(secondLE, wizard()->button(QWizard::NextButton));
setTabOrder(wizard()->button(QWizard::NextButton), wizard()->button(QWizard::BackButton));
setTabOrder(wizard()->button(QWizard::NextButton), secondLE);

The focus starts still on firstLE and I can still access with tab to firstLE and to every element of my_qdt

SGaist

You can also set the focus on secondLE after you constructed it. If needed, add an eventFilter on firstLE where you ignore the focus events