[Qt-interest] Force enter to default button rather than textEdit?

[Israel Brewster]

Perfect. And I don't even need to subclass QPlainTextEdit. Thanks!
On Sep 14, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Syam Krishnan wrote:

> On 09/15/2011 05:30 AM, Israel Brewster wrote:
>> I have a window with a QPlaintextEdit and a button (among other 
>> things). The QPlainTextEdit gets the focus by default, which I want 
>> (so you can just type in it). However, when return is pressed, rather 
>> than entering a new line in the QPlainTextEdit, I want it to activate 
>> the button (which is set to default). I have successfully gotten the 
>> QPlainTextEdit to ignore the enter key by overriding the keyPressEvent 
>> function, but even so the button isn't picking up on it. I would use a 
>> QlineEdit, but I want to be able to display more text than the width 
>> alone allows. How can I make this work? Thanks.
> 
> Try using QObject::installEventFilter().
> You can install an event filter on the text edit to filter out the 
> key-press event for enter key. When such an event happens, you can call 
> the slot that's connected to your default button (so that you'll get the 
> same behaviour as clicking on the button).
> 
> 
> Syam
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