QGLWidget, keyPressEvent does not work

[ricardo]

Hi friends!

I created a class that derives from QGLWidget, and I rewrote keyPressEvent:

void CGLEditorRenderer::keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent* e) {
qDebug("keyPressEvent");
}

But if I press a key I never see that message.

What's going on? Any idea?

Thanks.

[nish]

give your glwidget some focus first.. or show us some code

[Lykurg]

From a previous post I don't find right now:
install that event handler in your "QMainWindow" and see to which widget the key event is delivered:

bool XXX::eventFilter(QObject *o, QEvent *e)
{
    if(e->type() == QEvent::KeyPress)
    {
        qWarning() << "The bad guy which steals the keyevent is" << o;
    }
    return false;
}

bool XXX::eventFilter(QObject *o, QEvent *e)
{
    if(e->type() == QEvent::KeyPress)
    {
        qWarning() << "The bad guy which steals the keyevent is" << o;
    }
    return false;
}

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[ricardo]

Thanks a lot for replies.

@MrDeath: I guess my opengl componet has focus, because I draw some objects without porblems (actually, I want that if user press ESC, drawing is cancelled)

@Lykurg: I wrote these lines in my window class:

bool CEditor::eventFilter(QObject *obj, QEvent *event) {
	if(event->type() == QEvent::KeyPress) {
        qDebug(obj->objectName().toAscii());
		return true;
	} else {
		return QObject::eventFilter(obj, event);
	}
 }

bool CEditor::eventFilter(QObject *obj, QEvent *event) {
	if(event->type() == QEvent::KeyPress) {
        qDebug(obj->objectName().toAscii());
		return true;
	} else {
		return QObject::eventFilter(obj, event);
	}
 }

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And this in the main window constructor installEventFilter(this);

But everytime I press a key, I see CEditorClass, I never see any other string and it doesn't matter if I pressthe key on other object. BTW, it seems SPACE does not work.

Any idea? Honesly, I don't know what going on is.

Thanks in advance.

[Lykurg]

have you reimp the key press handler also in your class CEditorClass? If so, you need to pass the event through.

[nish]

are you writing
qApp->installEventFilter(this);

simply installEventFilter(this); will not work.

[ricardo]

are you writing
qApp->installEventFilter(this);

simply installEventFilter(this); will not work.

Thanks Lykurgand MrDeath, it seems we are closer.


qApp->installEventFilter(this); works better
Now I see different objects when keyboard is pressed. But never my opengl component, even if I click it and I press any key (in this case, I see eventfilter says another component).
It's as if my OGL widget never could had focus.

May I missing something?
I don't have reimplemented keyPressed in any place.

By the way, maybe this helps. I'm using Qt Designer, but as it does not have an OpenGL compent I added a horizontal layout, and I added tyhis lines in my window constructor.

// create opengl widget
m_gl_drawer=new CGLEditorRenderer(this);
ui.horizontalLayout_1->addWidget(m_gl_drawer);

Thanks a lot.

[ricardo]

OK. It seems now it works.

I read this on docs:

"The policy is Qt::TabFocus if the widget accepts keyboard focus by tabbing, Qt::ClickFocus if the widget accepts focus by clicking, Qt::StrongFocus if it accepts both, and Qt::NoFocus (the default) if it does not accept focus at all."

And

"You must enable keyboard focus for a widget if it processes keyboard events. This is normally done from the widget's constructor. For instance, the QLineEdit constructor calls setFocusPolicy(Qt::StrongFocus)."

After adding setFocusPolicy(Qt::StrongFocus) in my OGL component, it works. It seemed to be focus was disabled.

Thanks.