[Interest] QLineEdit upper case

[Bo Thorsen]

You don't have to modify it. Just filter it out if it's one you don't 
want to to allow the lineedit to receive.

Bo.

Den 08-08-2014 16:54, pmqt71 skrev:
> Hi Bo,
> as I said, some controls already have a validator so I can't replace it.
>
> I also tried the event filter, but once intercepted, the event is not
> modifiable :
>
> ...
> if (event->type() == QEvent::KeyRelease)
> {
>        QKeyEvent* keyEvent = static_cast<QKeyEvent*>(event);
>         // keyEvent has no method to change the key!
>        //...
> }
>
>
>
> 2014-08-08 15:48 GMT+02:00 Bo Thorsen <bo at vikingsoft.eu
> <mailto:bo at vikingsoft.eu>>:
>
>     Den 08-08-2014 15:41, pmqt71 skrev:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > I need a QLineEdit control that forces user input in uppercase while
>      > editing, not after loosing the focus.
>      >
>      > I'm trying different ways but each has side effects:
>      >
>      > - using the textEdited signal to make the text upper : bad
>     behaviour if
>      > editing in the middle;
>      > - using a validator : dislike this solution because some
>     QLineEdit have
>      > their validator.
>      >
>      > Is there a simple way?
>
>     The validator is the simple way.
>
>     For completeness, you could also do a subclass or event filter that
>     filters out all keyboard events with lower case letters.
>
>     But I would go with the validator.
>
>     Bo.
>
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