[Qt-interest] Qt Global Shortcuts and Modal Windows

[Joshua Grauman]

Hello all,

I have created a global shortcut key in one of my windows as follows:

   QAction *act = new QAction(this);
   act->setShortcut("Ctrl+Q");
   act->setShortcutContext(Qt::ApplicationShortcut);
   connect(act, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(shortcutQuit()));
   addAction(act);

This works great, and you can hit the shortcut key from anywhere in the 
program... until I set one of my windows to Qt::ApplicationModal. Now that 
shortcut key can't be pressed in that window. Any easy way around this?

(The docs probably need to be updated as well to reflect this limitation, 
unless it's a bug, as the documentation says: "Qt::ApplicationShortcut - 
The shortcut is active when one of the applications windows are active.")

Thanks!

Josh