[Qt-interest] How install shortcuts for multiple widgets? [Documentation unclear!]

[Wilhelm]

Hi all,

Am 09.02.2011 13:39, schrieb Frederic Tingaud:
>   Le 09/02/2011 13:28, Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch a écrit :
>> But from what I understand the OP has a different use case: there are several editors, and depending which editor has the focus pressing CTRL + S should trigger the "Save action" specific to that editor, or in other words: what needs to be saved is depending on the editor and is /different/ (not the same document to be saved) each time!
> Yes, that is also what I understand.
> 
>> My educated guess would be that this "shortcut context" thing might only work between "dialog and main windows", but not between common QWidgets?
>>
>  From what I remember, but I could be wrong, context works well if you 
> have for example two dock widgets at the same level. With a main window 
> and a dock widget, however, I would like the shortcut of the main window 
> to work when any child of the main window except the dock that redefines 
> my shortcut has the focus, and I couldn't find a way to do this with the 
> context.
> 

thank you for all the valuable input!

Some further tests revealed two things I am at least unhappy with:

i) official documentation states clearly:

Qt::WidgetShortcut	0	The shortcut is active when its parent widget has
focus.

But if I set this the shortcut is *not* working at all!

ii) some Qt widgets like QTextEdit etc. look into the shortcutMap of the
QApplication-Singleton and decide to *not* install a shortcut for e.g.
QSequence::Cut if there exists one (so the shortcut-key is not shown in
the contextmenu of QTextEdit). But third-party widgets can't do that!

-- 
Wilhelm