Same shortcut for different actions in different widgets

[agarny]

I guess QSignalMapper would do the trick, but I never really got how it works.. nor I spent time trying to get it.
Take a look at Qt MDI example, it's used here

Ok, having had a look at it, I don't think this is what I am after. It seems to me that QSignalMapper is used in the MDI example to get the MDI child windows activated. Also with regards to the 'shared' actions, I want to be able to have different tooltips, etc. and I can't see how QSignalMapper can address that.

See Qt::ShortcutContext for this and add the actions to the correct widgets!

I tried that earlier, but maybe didn't do it right. Will try again...

My opinion is that you should re-think the keyboard shortcuts and note that for many of us (and likely many of your users) Ctrl+C means copy.

And put your self in the "user" perspective, would you like to use an application which uses Ctrl+C all over the place and each time you press the key combination does a different thing depending on which widget has focus?

You clearly haven't read my message. Try again.