QWidget: StrongFocus and mousePressEvent

[Tuomo]

Hello,

Environment:
Win7, Qt 4.6.3, E51/E71/Samsung i8910

I have a window with multiple custom widgets in QGridLayout. Each widget consists of several fields (e.g. QLineEdit or QLabel) with FocusPolicy set to Qt::NoFocus. The parent widgets FocusPolicy is set to Qt::StrongFocus.

On Nokia E51 and E71 I'm able to select a widget by using the navigation button. However, if I click the widget nothing happens. I'm unable to catch the mousePressEvent. On the other hand, if I compile the code for Windows 7 or use phone with a touch screen the event is raised and everything works fine.

code example:

.h

class MyWidget : public QWidget
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
    explicit MyWidget(QWidget *parent = 0);

private:
    QLabel *m_Title;
    QLineEdit *m_Value;

protected:
    void mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent *event);

public slots:
    void OnClicked();
};

.cpp

MyWidget::MyWidget(QWidget *parent) :
    QWidget(parent)
{
    m_Title = new QLabel("test", this);
    m_Value = new QLineEdit(this);

    Initialize();
}

void MdSettingBox::Initialize()
{
    // layout items
    QGridLayout *layout = new QGridLayout(this);

    // focus policy
    m_Value->setFocusPolicy(Qt::NoFocus);
    m_Title->setFocusPolicy(Qt::NoFocus);
    setFocusPolicy(Qt::StrongFocus);

    // add items to layout
    layout->addWidget(m_Title, 0, 0, Qt::AlignLeft);
    layout->addWidget(m_Value, 1, 0, Qt::AlignRight);
}

void MdSettingBox::mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent *event)
{
    OnClicked();
}

Is there any way to implement the mousePressEvent with StrongFocus on older devices?

[rahulvala]

If your project contains click event then, go to the below article in which how the control transfer using mouse arrow keys.

http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...Qt_for_Symbian

Cheers,

[Tuomo]

Hello rahulvala,

currently my project does not contain the click event (because Widget does not have it.). That article did not provide any help.

I'm trying to make the widget behave like a button and therefore I'm using the mousePressEvent. The behavior I'm looking is similar with default S60 3.1 settings views (e.g. Settings->General->Personalisation->Display. ).

[gnuton]

Hello rahulvala,

currently my project does not contain the click event (because Widget does not have it.). That article did not provide any help.

I'm trying to make the widget behave like a button and therefore I'm using the mousePressEvent. The behavior I'm looking is similar with default S60 3.1 settings views (e.g. Settings->General->Personalisation->Display. ).

Mouse events are usually generated by a pointer (mouse or touchscreen)... E51 and E71 don't send any mouse event.

[Tuomo]

Mouse events are usually generated by a pointer (mouse or touchscreen)... E51 and E71 don't send any mouse event.

Thanks for the reply, that explains the behavior.

To the original question, is there any way to detect "clicked" signal on QWidget if mousePressEvent can't be used?

[gnuton]

Thanks for the reply, that explains the behavior.

To the original question, is there any way to detect "clicked" signal on QWidget if mousePressEvent can't be used?

You can generate Mouse events as well as any event supported by Qt.. with some limitations in some cases. For instance MouseEvents generated by X11 server on Linux (desktop or Maemo) contain data related to the native XEvents.
"Native" events are usually called "spontaneous". Check QEvent::spontaneous () for more info.

Anyway the code should look like this:
QMouseEvent e = new QMouseEvent(...);
QCoreApplication:: postEvent(my_object, e);

[Tuomo]

You can generate Mouse events as well as any event supported by Qt.. with some limitations in some cases. For instance MouseEvents generated by X11 server on Linux (desktop or Maemo) contain data related to the native XEvents.
"Native" events are usually called "spontaneous". Check QEvent::spontaneous () for more info.

Anyway the code should look like this:
QMouseEvent e = new QMouseEvent(...);
QCoreApplication:: postEvent(my_object, e);

Thanks again.

That explains how to generate an event but it still requires another event/signal to trigger it? As I told before I'm able to gain the focus when moving on the widget, but I'm unable to detect user clicking on that widget.

[gnuton]

Thanks again.

That explains how to generate an event but it still requires another event/signal to trigger it? As I told before I'm able to gain the focus when moving on the widget, but I'm unable to detect user clicking on that widget.

You can filter the QFocusEvents. Take a look at http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qobject...allEventFilter.
Note you need just one filter method MyWidget::eventFilter(QObject *obj, QEvent *event) to filter all children widgets.