[Qt-interest] Opening web page from a dialog when the user hits F1

[Marian Ciobanu]

> I need to open a web page when the user presses F1 in a dialog. It's the
> same page regardless of which widget has the focus.
> 
> All I could think of was to use eventFilter() and call
> QDesktopServices::openUrl() from it. I also need to call
> installEventFilter() for all edit widgets, because while buttons let F1
> key presses propagate to the dialog, edit widgets don't do such a thing.
> 
> Is there a better way to achieve what I want?


Oh, it just occured to me that I could use a QAction, with F1 as its shortcut; that's quite OK. Anyway, what would other options be?

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