[Qt-interest] Capture mouse Event

[Ankit Agarwal]

Hi Ivan,
Thanks for the reply.
I have never worked with the event filter thing. Can you please give an
example or where can i get an example on that.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ivan Kharin <korsar.akvis at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Ankit.
>
> > Hi,
> > I have my GUI made in Qt. The app has multiple views(pages).
> > Problem:
> > If the user is not performing any operation for a specified amount
> > of time, say 10 min, then i need to exit the application. How can i
> achive this?
>
> > One way of doing this is reimplement mouseMoveEvent() for every
> > view I have, and then maintain a timer. every time the user moves
> > the mouse, the timer resets. If the timer expires, then the application
> exits.
> > Is there a bteer way to implement the same.
>
> 0. Declare variable: int idleMinutes = 0;
> 1. Set event filter to qApp
> 2. In event_filter body, reset idleMinutes to zero if event is QInputEvent
> (keyboard or mouse)
> 3. Set QTimer with one minute interval
> 4. In timer_slot body, increment idleMinutes and call qApp->quit() if
> idleMinutes >= 10
>
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Regards,
Ankit Agarwal
SW Engineer
Vegayan Systems
email : ankit_agarwal at vegayan.com
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