How to assign a hotkey to a QCombobox?
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Hello I have a Qcombobox. When I open its drop-down menu, is there a way to assign a hotkey to each menus?
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Hi,
What behaviour do you have in mind ?
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@SGaist said in How to assign a hotkey to a QCombobox?:
Hi,
What behaviour do you have in mind ?
For example, when I open this drop-down box, I can press 'A' to select "Activated (A)".
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I think just calling the QComboBox::setCurrentIndex(int index) method should do the trick.
If you just call it as a response to the key pressed, you should get the behavior you want.
Now there is the question: who detects the keypress ? Should those hotkeys always be active, no matter which widget has focus ? If that's what you want, you can set an eventfilter on the whole application. Be carefull, though. As your application becomes bigger, global hotkeys probably quickly stop being a good idea.When I open this drop-down box
If that's the only time the hotkey is active, then you can set the filter on the QComboBox alone, or (cleaner) inherit from QComboBox to overwrite QWidget::keyPressEvent.
