Posting a QKeyEvent to a QLineEdit

[jpn]

Looks like it might be impossible to handle it this way. Still if you send a focus event and the widget even receives it, QApplication won't be tricked. Although the widget prepares itself as if it had been focused (like QLineEdit's cursor starts blinking etc.), the next (real) key press event still goes to a widget which the qApp believes that has focus. QApplication updates it's focus widget (QApplicationPrivate::setFocusWidget()) only when a focus event comes from the underlying system, window manager, or focus is set manually by calling QWidget::setFocus().

[jacek]

Maybe you could use QtTest module? It has some methods for sending key events.

[cocheci]

Maybe you could use QtTest module? It has some methods for sending key events.

Thanks Jacek, it looks like this might work, I'll definitely try it. Here's the first phrase from the "Simulating GUI Event" chapter:

QTestLib features some mechanisms to test graphical user interfaces. Instead of simulating native window system events, QTestLib sends internal Qt events. That means there are no side-effects on the machine the tests are running on.

If this works, I'll let you know.

Cristian

[cocheci]

Thanks Jacek, it looks like this might work, I'll definitely try it. Here's the first phrase from the "Simulating GUI Event" chapter:

QTestLib features some mechanisms to test graphical user interfaces. Instead of simulating native window system events, QTestLib sends internal Qt events. That means there are no side-effects on the machine the tests are running on.

If this works, I'll let you know.

Cristian

This worked, thank you all!!

Cristian