Shortcut: CTRL + SHIFT + "letters"

[smarinr]

Hi,
im having a problem with 3 key shortcut. I'm trying to add to an action this:

action->->setShortcut(QKeySequence( (Qt::CTRL+Qt::SHIFT), Qt::Key_1)) but isn't trigeer, does anyone have an idea how to implement a 3 Key Shortcut??

THANKS

[wysota]

Shouldn't it be:

QKeySequence(Qt::CTRL+Qt::SHIFT+Qt::Key_1)
?

[smarinr]

OH YEAH, im sorry, wrong code :P but QKeySequence(Qt::CTRL+Qt::SHIFT+Qt::Key_1) also didn't work and QKeySequence(Qt::CTRL,Qt::SHIFT,Qt::Key_1). My concern is if it is able to do it... or somebody have same problems. I have also 2 keys shortcuts in the same class and there are fine.

[wysota]

Try:

QKeySequence("Ctrl+Shift+1")

[smarinr]

nothing... I changed it to
QKeySequence(tr("Ctrl+Shift+1")) but nothing has trigger. Put on it a breakpoint to verify that isn't triggering.

[wysota]

So obviously the reason is not here. Can we see a larger snippet of code? How do you create and use the action?

[smarinr]

void QtContactMenu::createSortMenu( QObject* parent )
{


createAction( &_actionSortAlpha, pMenu, tr("Alphabetically"), true, QtEnumSortOption::SortAlpha, "", QKeySequence(tr("Ctrl+Shift+1")) );
createAction( &_actionSortPresence, pMenu, tr("Presence"), true, QtEnumSortOption::SortPresence, "", QKeySequence(tr("Ctrl+Shift+2")) );
createAction( &_actionSortRandom, pMenu, tr("Random"), true, QtEnumSortOption::SortRandom, "", QKeySequence(tr("Ctrl+Shift+3")) );

}

void QtContactMenu2::createAction( QAction** ppAction, QMenu* pMenu, const QString& text, bool bCheckable, int data, const char* iconPath, QKeySequence & shortcut ){
*ppAction = new QAction( text, NULL ); //, parent );

(*ppAction)->setCheckable( bCheckable );
(*ppAction)->setData(qVariantFromValue(data) );

if ( iconPath && (strlen( iconPath ) > 0 ) )
{
QIcon icon1;
icon1.addPixmap(QPixmap( QString::fromUtf8(iconPath)), QIcon::Normal, QIcon::Off);
(*ppAction)->setIcon(icon1);
}
if (shortcut){
(*ppAction)->setShortcut(shortcut);
}
pMenu->addAction( *ppAction );

}

[wysota]

First of all please provide a parent for the action.
What is pMenu (I mean the base class of it)? Is it visible anywhere on the screen?

[smarinr]

pMenu is a QMenu object, thats the menu on the app.

What difference makes the parent?? I'm asking because if you set this:

createAction( &_actionSortAlpha, pMenu, tr("Alphabetically"), true, QtEnumSortOption::SortAlpha, "", QKeySequence(tr("Ctrl+1")) );

this shortcut works without any problem...

[wysota]

This works for me just fine:

#include <QtGui>


int main(int argc, char **argv){
QApplication app(argc, argv);
QToolButton pb;
QAction *act = new QAction(&app);
act->setText("text");
act->setShortcut(QKeySequence("Ctrl+Shift+1"));
pb.setDefaultAction(act);
QObject::connect(act, SIGNAL(triggered()), &app, SLOT(quit()));
pb.show();
return app.exec();
}

The only reason I can think of is that the menu is not the active widget and thus the action is inactive. But then the second snippet you posted shouldn't have worked as well.

[smarinr]

thats the wear part, 2 keys works but 3 dont.

[wysota]

Could you test if my example works for you?

[smarinr]

Hey Wisota, is working but only with keyboard numbers, the numbers on the numpad of the keyboard dont react on it, I do it just once but no more.... Are keyboard nums and numpad nums different for QT??

[wysota]

Do you have NumLock enabled on your keyboard?

[smarinr]

Yeap :p With or Without the NumLock, Keyboard nums works but NumPad don't

[wysota]

Yeap :p With or Without the NumLock, Keyboard nums works but NumPad don't

It works for me just fine when using the numeric key pad with NumLock active. Or at least with a pseudo-keypad (I have a laptop without a real keypad, only one made of special function keys).

[smarinr]

Maybe.... im not pressing CRTL + SHIFT + 1 but I'm pressing CTL + ! (which is SHIFT + 1)> That why sometimes works

[wysota]

I don't know what you are pressing :) "!" is "!", "Shift+1" is "Shift+1". You can have different keyboard layouts and some of them won't have "!" as "Shift+1". It works for me when I press Ctrl, Shift and 1.