[Qt-interest] Blocked events on title bar right click.

[Philippe]

There is a fix for this in 4.6, though it's still not perfect. The
following report is related to this subject:
http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-6083

Philippe

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:22:17 +1100
"Tony Rietwyk" <tony.rietwyk at rightsoft.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Jay, 
>  
> I found in 4.5 that timer events do not get sent while the user is resizing
> the window, or moving it about.  I assumed Windows grabs the mouse as soon
> as it is clicked in the non-client area, and creates its own event loop
> until the mouse is released - but I didn't check the code or ask about it.
> At the time, I simply abandoned the use of Qt timers, since they all seemed
> to be based on receiving event messages in Windows.  I used platform
> specific interfaces instead.  
>  
> Why do you need to get the events from outside the *client* area of your
> windows?  
>  
> Tony.
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com
> [mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Jay Caldwell
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 December 2009 15:11
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Blocked events on title bar right click.
> 
> 
> 
> Following up:
> 
>  
> 
> I can now make the ContextMenu not be shown by setting
> Qt::CustomizeWindowHint.  Now events flow if the user lets go of the right
> mouse button on the NonClientArea (i.e. Tilte Bar) but are still blocked if
> the user holds down the right mouse button.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jay
> 
>  
> 
> 
>   _____  
> 
> 
> From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com
> [mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Jay Caldwell
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 December 2009 10:52 AM
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Subject: [Qt-interest] Blocked events on title bar right click.
> 
>  
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>  
> 
> We are having an issue where events are being blocked when a dialog box
> title bar is right clicked.  Right clicking the title bar pops up the "Move,
> Size, Minimise, Maximise, Close" menu box.
> 
>  
> 
> We have tried to use the event filter to catch the event and force it to
> process all events via QCoreApplication::processEvents
> (QEventLoop::AllEvents ) to no avail.  So we printed to std out all the
> event types to see what the last event is whilst right clicking on the title
> bar.  There was no event at all once the right click was carried out.  We
> were expecting a right click event at least.
> 
>  
> 
> So as a work around, is there a way to stop this menu from being popped up?
> Or is there another solution?
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jay.
>