Richard Moore wrote:
> 
> Stefan Taferner wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 01:00:51AM +0200, Harri Porten wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm afraid I haven't answered this yet %-/
> > >
> > > > > uh, I think the Trolls set Ctrl-A to "beginning of line" (and
> > > > > appropriately Ctrl-E to "end of line" in all text-based widgets.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for pointing this out.
> > > >
> > > > Will every shortcut define in QLineEdit stop us from using it ourselves
> > > > ? Ctrl-F is for example used to move the cursor forward while we define
> > > > it as an accelerator for find.
> > >
> > > I guess it depends on focus. If some Qt widget uses Ctrl-F for for "cursor
> > > forward", it will get the keyevent first and most probably accept it.
> > >
> > > It would be nice to have a way to redefine all of Qt's accelerators, but
> > > I'm afraid this is not feasible without subclassing all affected widgets.
> >
> > And even subclassing all the widgets is IMO no good way to solve
> > the problem.
> >
> > We would then end up in a complete mess, where we have apps that
> > use our widgets with our bindings, and apps that use Qt's widgets.
> >
> > IMO the only way that makes sense is to use Qt's standard bindings
> > and add our own for the keys that are unused.
> 
> We can also use event filters to handle this.
> 
This doesn't change anything. The point Stefan had was that you have
to everywhere or nowhere and that you have not really a way to ensure
either way besides not doing it at all :)

Greetings, Stephan

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