Opened 15 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#79 closed enhancement (fixed)

Make sure single Alt key press is first handled by Qt

Reported by: Dmitry A. Kuminov Owned by:
Priority: blocker Milestone: Qt Beta 5
Component: QtGui Version: 4.5.1 Beta 2
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Description

The Alt key is intercepted by PM and used to activate the native PM window menu bar or the system menu if there is no native menu bar.

This steals the Alt key press from Qt and therefore prevents it from activating the Qt menu bar in Qt applications; the system menu is always activated instead. This doesn't make sense and needs to be fixed. For the system menu, there is a de-facto standard Alt+Space key combination which should also do the same in Qt applications but single Alt press should be normally passed to Qt which will cause the Qt menu bar activation if there is one.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by Silvan Scherrer

Milestone: Qt GAQt Beta5

comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by Dmitry A. Kuminov

Done in r353.

Note that this also disables almost all system default shortcuts for frame windows such as Alt+F7 (Move), Alt+F10 (Maximize) and so on. This was done to let Qt applications process these key combinations normally. Note that Alt+F4, Alt+Esc and Ctrl+Esc will keep their functionality because of their obvious importance.

Note also that although Qt intercepts Alt+Space as well, it will activate the native system menu if the top-level window has one (i.e. has a title bar with the icon in the left corner) -- this is a handy shortcut which will also compensate for the lack of the direct ones like Alt+F7 (so that the user will still be able to move/resize/maximize the window w/o using the mouse).

comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by Dmitry A. Kuminov

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
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