[Qt-interest] How to catch key press/release first?

[R. Reucher]

On Fri May 15 2009 12:58:42 Martin Gebert wrote:
> I'm currently exploring possibilities to catch key press and release events
> for the cursor keys and handle them before any other widget gets the
> chance.
You need to create an event filter and install it on the QApplication object.

See http://doc.qtsoftware.com/4.5/qobject.html#installEventFilter

HTH, René

PS: If you need a more complicated example, I can give you a link to a project 
of mine where I'm using this method.
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