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Bob Sacamano
Bob Sacamano

Reputation: 439

set focus on button in app with group boxes

Let's say I have an application with a number of QGroupBoxes like so:

import sys


from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore


class Main(QtGui.QWidget):
    # pylint: disable=too-many-statements
    def __init__(self, main):
        super(Main, self).__init__()
        self.grid_layout = QtGui.QGridLayout()

        self.line_edit = QtGui.QLineEdit()
        self.grid_layout.addWidget(self.create_settings_group(), 0, 0, 2, 1)

        self.push_button = QtGui.QPushButton("go", self)
        self.grid_layout.addWidget(self.create_controls_group(), 0, 1)

        self.setLayout(self.grid_layout)
        main.setCentralWidget(self)

    def create_settings_group(self):
        group_box_settings = QtGui.QGroupBox(self)
        group_box_settings.setTitle("group1")
        grid = QtGui.QGridLayout()
        grid.addWidget(self.line_edit, 0, 0)
        group_box_settings.setLayout(grid)
        return group_box_settings

    def create_controls_group(self):
        group_box_settings = QtGui.QGroupBox(self)
        group_box_settings.setTitle("group2")
        grid = QtGui.QGridLayout()
        grid.addWidget(self.push_button, 0, 0, 1, 2)
        group_box_settings.setLayout(grid)
        return group_box_settings


class GUI(QtGui.QMainWindow):

    def __init__(self):
        super(GUI, self).__init__()
        self.ui = Main(self)
        self.show()


app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
ex = GUI()
app.exec_()

When I open my simple application I see that the cursor is blinking in the line edit. But I just want the push button in another group box to be highlighted and to have enter press connected to it? how do I do that? using self.push_button.setFocus() doesn't do anything.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4499

Answers (2)

eyllanesc
eyllanesc

Reputation: 243983

You have to set the focus a moment after showing up for it you can use a QTimer::singleShot() or QMetaObject::invokeMethod():

1. QTimer::singleShot()

...
self.push_button = QtGui.QPushButton("go", self)
self.grid_layout.addWidget(self.create_controls_group(), 0, 1)

self.push_button.setDefault(True)
QtCore.QTimer.singleShot(0, self.push_button.setFocus)

2. QMetaObject::invokeMethod()

...
self.push_button = QtGui.QPushButton("go", self)
self.grid_layout.addWidget(self.create_controls_group(), 0, 1)

self.push_button.setDefault(True)
QtCore.QMetaObject.invokeMethod(self.push_button, 
    "setFocus",
    QtCore.Qt.QueuedConnection)

Upvotes: 5

Degang Guo
Degang Guo

Reputation: 505

You can try setting the button Default property:

self.push_button.setDefault(True)
self.push_button.setFocus()

Upvotes: 7

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