MacOS Key_F9 becomes Key_8

[JoZCaVaLLo]

Hi people!!!

I have a strange behaviour on MacOS X... On my QAction I have set the following

QAction my1Action = new QAction(this);
my1Action->setShortcut(Qt::Key_F9);
my1Action->setText(tr("My 1st action"));
connect(...)
 
QAction my2Action = new QAction(this);
my2Action->setShortcut(QSequence(Qt::SHIFT + Qt::Key_F9));
my2Action->setText(tr("My 2nd action"));
connect(...)

QAction my1Action = new QAction(this);
my1Action->setShortcut(Qt::Key_F9);
my1Action->setText(tr("My 1st action"));
connect(...)

QAction my2Action = new QAction(this);
my2Action->setShortcut(QSequence(Qt::SHIFT + Qt::Key_F9));
my2Action->setText(tr("My 2nd action"));
connect(...)

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Now... why in my menu do I see the following???
(in the menu, F9 is replaced by a 8)...
f9-8.png

This happens only on Mac, on windows it works pretty well.

Thanks for any hint...

[Spitfire]

That's odd...
Does it happen for all keys or only F9?

[JoZCaVaLLo]

Hi Spitfire.

Thank you for taking the time to answer me
Only with F9... I saw on Mac documentation that Function keys from F9 to F12 are used by OSX to handle Dashbord and windows behaviour... I'm quite sure it is related...
Anyway, I could not find out why it uses the 8...

[Lykurg]

Hi,

#include <QtGui>
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
 
    QMainWindow w;
 
    QAction* my1Action = new QAction(&w);
    my1Action->setShortcut(Qt::Key_F9);
    my1Action->setText("My 1st action");
 
    QAction* my2Action = new QAction(&w);
    my2Action->setShortcut(QKeySequence(Qt::SHIFT + Qt::Key_F9));
    my2Action->setText("My 2nd action");
 
    QMenu m;
    m.addAction(my1Action);
    m.addAction(my2Action);
    m.setTitle("test");
    w.menuBar()->addMenu(&m);
 
    w.show();
 
    return a.exec();
}

#include <QtGui>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);

    QMainWindow w;

    QAction* my1Action = new QAction(&w);
    my1Action->setShortcut(Qt::Key_F9);
    my1Action->setText("My 1st action");

    QAction* my2Action = new QAction(&w);
    my2Action->setShortcut(QKeySequence(Qt::SHIFT + Qt::Key_F9));
    my2Action->setText("My 2nd action");

    QMenu m;
    m.addAction(my1Action);
    m.addAction(my2Action);
    m.setTitle("test");
    w.menuBar()->addMenu(&m);

    w.show();

    return a.exec();
}

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works just fine on my MacOSX 10.6.8 (MacBook Pro).

[JoZCaVaLLo]

Ok... that means it's a misconfiguration on my mac...

Thank you very much!

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Added after 9 minutes:

I put up a Brand new Mac OS 10.7.3 machine... Installed Xcode and QT and...
there it is... F9 is replaced with an 8...
I'll investigate further, but I think this problem starts with the 10.7.3 update released in march 2012...