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pythonpython-2.7pyqtpyqt4keyboard-shortcuts
Jinhong Park
Jinhong Park

Reputation: 45

I want to use keyboard-shortcuts in my code in PyQt4

I am developing a p-room management program. When the user presses the "ESC" key, "Dialog" is terminated. I want to prevent this. So, I want to use 'second code' in 'first code'

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

try:
    _fromUtf8 = QtCore.QString.fromUtf8
except AttributeError:
    def _fromUtf8(s):
        return s

try:
    _encoding = QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8
    def _translate(context, text, disambig):
        return QtGui.QApplication.translate(context, text, disambig, _encoding)
except AttributeError:
    def _translate(context, text, disambig):
        return QtGui.QApplication.translate(context, text, disambig)

class Ui_Dialog(object):
    def setupUi(self, Dialog):
        self.Dialog = Dialog
        self.Dialog.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("self.Dialog"))
        self.Dialog.resize(190, 98)
        self.pushButton = QtGui.QPushButton(self.Dialog)
        self.pushButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 191, 101))
        font = QtGui.QFont()
        font.setPointSize(13)
        self.pushButton.setFont(font)
        self.pushButton.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("pushButton"))
        self.retranslateUi(self.Dialog)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(self.Dialog)
        QtCore.QObject.connect(self.pushButton, QtCore.SIGNAL('released()'), self.Dialog.close) # <- put signal to close when clicked.

    def retranslateUi(self, Dialog):
        self.Dialog.setWindowTitle(_translate("self.Dialog", "self.Dialog", None))
        self.pushButton.setText(_translate("self.Dialog", "hi", None))

class QCustomDialog (QtGui.QDialog): # <- Implement your own
    def closeEvent(self, event):
        reply = QtGui.QMessageBox.question(self, 'Message',
            "Are you sure to quit?", QtGui.QMessageBox.Yes | 
            QtGui.QMessageBox.No, QtGui.QMessageBox.No)
        if reply == QtGui.QMessageBox.Yes:
            event.accept()
        else:
            event.ignore()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    Dialog = QCustomDialog()
    ui = Ui_Dialog()
    ui.setupUi(Dialog)
    Dialog.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

from PyQt4.Qt import Qt 
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
from PyQt4.QtCore import QObject, SIGNAL 
from PyQt4.QtGui import QWidget, QApplication, QMainWindow, QAction, QIcon, QKeySequence 
import os, time, MySQLdb, socket, sys


class MainWindow(QMainWindow): 
    def __init__(self, parent): 
        QMainWindow.__init__(self, parent) 
        self.centralwidget = QWidget(self) 

        self.action = QAction(QIcon(), "Down", self) 
        self.action.setShortcut("ESC") 
        self.action.setShortcutContext(Qt.ApplicationShortcut)
        self.addAction(self.action) 

        QObject.connect(self.action, SIGNAL("triggered()"), self.down) 

    def down(self): 
        print 'DOWN!!!' 

def main(): 
    app = QApplication(sys.argv) 
    mw = MainWindow(None) 
    mw.show() 
    sys.exit(app.exec_()) 

if __name__ == '__main__': 
    main()

Upvotes: 3

Views: 12386

Answers (1)

Bandhit Suksiri
Bandhit Suksiri

Reputation: 3450

Easy way to use keyboard shortcut is to use QShortcut by using the key sequence in QKeySequence:

class MainWindow (QtGui.QMainWindow): 
    def __init__ (self, parent = None): 
        QtGui.QMainWindow.__init__(self, parent)
        .
        .
        .
        self.myQCustomDialog = QCustomDialog() # <- From code 1
        ui = Ui_Dialog()                       # <- From code 1
        ui.setupUi(self.myQCustomDialog)       # <- From code 1
        self.setCentralWidget(self.myQCustomDialog) # <- Set to this central widget
        .
        .
        .
        self.connect(QtGui.QShortcut(QtGui.QKeySequence(QtCore.Qt.Key_Escape), self), QtCore.SIGNAL('activated()'), self.down)

def down(self): 
    print 'DOWN!!!'
    # Or put code to implement from code 1

QShortcut class: http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/qshortcut.html

QKeySequence class: http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/qkeysequence.html

Qt.Key reference: http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/qt.html

Another way implement the code above, this example shows how to implement in dialog:

class Ui_Dialog(object):
    def setupUi(self, Dialog):
        .
        .
        .
        QtCore.QObject.connect(QtGui.QShortcut(QtGui.QKeySequence(QtCore.Qt.Key_Escape), self.Dialog), QtCore.SIGNAL('activated()'), self.Dialog.close)

Upvotes: 10

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