[Interest] Sequence of events in a double click

[Schimkowitsch Robert]

Hi Axel,

thanks for that pointer. I can now follow how QGuiApplicationPrivate::processMouseEvent() first receives the events, detects that an event is a double click, then calls my filter with the original event, and then calls my filter again with an extra double click event in case of a double click. So I guess this is intended behavior.

That said, I use Qt since 2009, so either things have changed sometimes between then and 2017, or the behavior was subtly different when only observing events on the widget or graphics view level. With an event filter, I am of course much lower-level.

I’m getting old...

Kind regards

Robert

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Servus Robert,

QGuiApplication::processMouseEvent() consumes the second mouse press event and sends an additional QEvent::Type::MouseButtonDblClick if the time between two presses is within the double click interval (QGuiApplication::styleHints()->mouseDoubleClickInterval()).

That said, when the second press event is received, Qt doesn't know if it meets the criteria for a double click.
The second press event has been sent for as long as I remember. That is, according to git blame, at least since 2017 ;-)

Cheers
Axel

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A small correction: “ButtonDoubleRelease” does not exist. It should read “ButtonRelease”



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Hi all,



when you perform a double click on a mouse button (=pressing and releasing the mouse button in fast sequence twice), I have, over many years, always expected this sequence:



ButtonPress

ButtonRelease

ButtonDoublePress

ButtonDoubleRelease



It is consistent with what I get when I trace the window events using Spy++ (on Windows, for context) on a simple application (not my own, since Spy++ crashes when encountering the hooks of a serious Qt application, and I currently don’t have a good replacement tool).



However, in my Qt 6.8.2 application using a window event filter, I receive the following sequence:



ButtonPress

ButtonRelease

ButtonPress

ButtonDoublePress

ButtonDoubleRelease



The extra press confuses me. Is this as it should be?



Kind regards



Robert

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