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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Mapping keyPressEvent() to text
From:       Craig Howard <kde () choward ! ca>
Date:       2005-09-06 19:17:37
Message-ID: 200509061517.37835.kde () choward ! ca
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On Monday 05 September 2005 13:19, Craig Howard wrote:
> I'm writing a GUI for a library and I need to translate key combinations
> like CTRL+Y from the QKeyEvent into the string "<CTRL>y"
>
> What I'm doing right now is testing the event->keyboardModifier() and
> adding that to the string, then adding event->text().  However, when a key
> like CTRL is down, event->text() for the above CTRL+Y gives me the string
> "\031", even though event->key() == Qt::Key_Y.
>
> How can I make event->key() and event->text() return the same thing in this
> case?  Thanks.

For the record, I got an answer to this question on one of the Qt newsgroups.
I did 

QString keySeq( QKeySequence( event->key() + event->modifier() ) );

and then performed operations on the returned string to get it into the format 
I wanted.
-- 

Craig Howard
 
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