Global short cut key for a QPushButton

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How could I register a global short cut key for a certain QPushButton? Especially when the QPushButton is not a direct child of the main window.

Do you mean global shortcut for whole OS(you should catch this shortcut if user doesn't work with your window)? — Jablonski, Feb 26 '15 at 08:15
Yes. For example, how could I register the windows button for certain application and prevent the windows start menu from popping out? — Nyaruko, Feb 26 '15 at 08:17
I know how to create global shortcut for something like Ctrl + Something, but single Windows key is not a shortcut, I catched windows key pressing a few minutes ago with global keyboard low-level hook, it works good, but I don't know how to disable Start menu appearing — Jablonski, Feb 26 '15 at 08:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 13 '16 at 15:16

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You mean

QKeySequence

QShortcut

classes? Or do you just need something more powerful?

answered Apr 13 '16 at 15:16

MasterAler

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 14 '17 at 16:34

Usually you create a QAction and you add it to a menu or a toolbar. You can set a shortcut, icon, tooltip etc, this is not exactly a QPushButton but it's pretty close and it is easy to link your action to any slot of your convenience.

But if you just want to capture a shortcut or a key to steal it from the OS, MasterAler is right, go for QKeySequence or QShortcut.

Global short cut key for a QPushButton

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