[Interest] Possible to know if QAction was triggered by QKeySequence or click?

Philipp Kursawe phil.kursawe at gmail.com
Wed Oct 30 15:43:44 CET 2013


I cannot see an event for shortcuts, but I'll check the keypress events.


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:25 AM, william.crocker at analog.com <
william.crocker at analog.com> wrote:

> On 10/30/2013 06:12 AM, Philipp Kursawe wrote:
> > I want to detect how users usually work with the application. Do they
> click more
> > or use the shortcuts. This way we can optimize the UI.
> >
>
> You can try installing a global event filter on the app.
> You would then see all events go by, some of which would be
> short-cuts, button-widget enters etc. You could then correlate
> that to action triggers to get an idea of how the actions
> are being triggered.
>
> Bill
>
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Bo Thorsen <bthorsen at ics.com
> > <mailto:bthorsen at ics.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Den 30-10-2013 10:59, Philipp Kursawe skrev:
> >     >  Any way to find that out?
> >
> >     No. Just like you can't know if it's from the menu or toolbar or some
> >     other way. An action is triggered, that's the only thing that
> matters.
> >
> >     Maybe you should try and describe what it is you want to achieve with
> >     all of those things. It seems like you are trying to take control in
> a
> >     way that you're not supposed to do. Frameworks always have their
> ways of
> >     doing some things, and if you deliberately try and bend them to your
> >     way, you are in for a frustrating ride.
> >
> >     Bo.
> >
> >     --
> >     Bo Thorsen, European Engineering Manager, ICS
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