[Interest] Calling reject() on a QFileDialog on Macintosh

[Rutledge Shawn]

On 25 Jun 2014, at 21:10, John Weeks <john at wavemetrics.com> wrote:

> We use QFileDialog::getOpenFileName() to get the native file dialog on Macintosh. If you hit Escape, the dialog closes (as it should).
> 
> If I call QDialog::reject() or even if I use this code:
> 
> 			 QFileDialog * dialog =  qobject_cast<QFileDialog *>(activeModalWidget);
> 			QKeyEvent * event = new QKeyEvent(QEvent::KeyPress, Qt::Key_Escape, Qt::NoModifier, QString(),0,0);
> 			QApplication::postEvent(dialog, event);
> 			event = new QKeyEvent(QEvent::KeyRelease, Qt::Key_Escape, Qt::NoModifier, QString(),0,0);
> 			QApplication::postEvent(dialog, event);
> the dialog closes, but with Qt 5.3 it leaves the application in some sort of modal state. This puzzles me- hitting the Escape key works fine. What's the difference?
> 
> By the way, this works as I expect with Qt 4.8.6.

That sounds like a bug.  What do you mean about the modal state, the window is active but you can’t interact with anything in it?  Or it’s not active?