[Interest] Finish QLineEdit editing when user clicks anywhere outside the QLineEdit

John Weeks john at wavemetrics.com
Wed Aug 14 19:57:43 CEST 2019


Ah. In our case, the QLineEdit is inside (and parented by) a widget that provides the background of the window. That parent widget can accept focus, so I guess our cases are not quite the same.

> On Aug 14, 2019, at 9:35 AM, Murphy, Sean <smurphy at walbro.com> wrote:
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>> I used the QLineEdit  focusOutEvent() event.
> 
> Can you elaborate on that? Because when I tested yesterday, if the user clicks on something that does NOT grab focus (for example, any whitespace that exists in the layout between widgets), the line edit never gets a focusOutEvent().
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> I need it to work if the user clicks ANYWHERE outside the QLineEdit, and there's no way for me to predict/guarantee what the user is going to click on...
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> Sean
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