QGraphicsTextItem focus problem

[Gopala Krishna]

Another way could be to install an event filter on the application object:

class MyTextItem : public QGraphicsTextItem // QGraphicsTextItem inherits QObject
{
	Q_OBJECT
	...
 
public:
	bool eventFilter(QObject* object, QEvent* event)
	{
		if (event->type() == QEvent::Shortcut || 
			event->type() == QEvent::ShortcutOverride)
		{
			if (!object->inherits("QGraphicsView"))
			{
				event->accept();
				return true;
			}
		}
		return false;
	}
 
protected:
	void focusInEvent(QFocusEvent* event) {
		QGraphicsTextItem::focusInEvent(event);
		qApp->installEventFilter(this);
	}
 
	void focusOutEvent(QFocusEvent* event) {
		QGraphicsTextItem::focusOutEvent(event);
		qApp->removeEventFilter(this);
	}
};

class MyTextItem : public QGraphicsTextItem // QGraphicsTextItem inherits QObject
{
	Q_OBJECT
	...

public:
	bool eventFilter(QObject* object, QEvent* event)
	{
		if (event->type() == QEvent::Shortcut || 
			event->type() == QEvent::ShortcutOverride)
		{
			if (!object->inherits("QGraphicsView"))
			{
				event->accept();
				return true;
			}
		}
		return false;
	}

protected:
	void focusInEvent(QFocusEvent* event) {
		QGraphicsTextItem::focusInEvent(event);
		qApp->installEventFilter(this);
	}

	void focusOutEvent(QFocusEvent* event) {
		QGraphicsTextItem::focusOutEvent(event);
		qApp->removeEventFilter(this);
	}
};

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Hey that works like a charm. Thanks a lot!