checkable QAction shortcut hold

**winder** · 17th February 2010, 23:25

i started setting flags in keyPressed and keyReleased events... only to realize that when a key is being held down, pressed and released events are sent.... even though you have never released the key!! How misleading... You can never be sure, if a key release event happened when a key is actually released, or when a key stayed down for too long...

i'm confused... maybe a code example can clear things out...

**aamer4yu** · 18th February 2010, 06:31

What happens if you set your action autorepeat as false ?
QAction::setAutoRepeat(false)

**Lykurg** · 18th February 2010, 07:24

Originally Posted by aamer4yu

QAction::setAutoRepeat(false)

D'oh! nice...

**winder** · 18th February 2010, 11:55

Thatnks!! That's what i was looking for!

Great! thank you.

**winder** · 18th February 2010, 15:21

I have a related question, so i post it here, rather than posting a new thread.

i have a 3d viewport, and i want the user to be able to navigate around the scene when mouse is moved while ALT key is pressed. So what i want to do, is check inside a mouseMove event, if alt key is pressed. The thing is, i don't know how to do that!

I also think that, maybe this way, auto repeat will still be a problem, since i'm not dealing with a particular action, to just call the setAutoRepeat(false).

Thanks again.

**winder** · 18th February 2010, 15:48

For the auto repeat issue inside a key event handler, i think this is the solution.... bool QKeyEvent::isAutoRepeat () const

Now how can i use alt in conjunction with mouse?