Show all QCompleter elements on click

Question

There is QComboBox with QCompleter. It is necessary to show all complementer elements when clicking on the LineEdit combobox. There is this code:

completer = new QCompleter(this);
completer->setModel(assignment_contacts);
completer->setCompletionMode(QCompleter::CompletionMode::PopupCompletion);
completer->popup()->setStyleSheet("background-color:rgb(54, 57, 63);"
                              "color:white;");
QFont popupFont = QFont("Segoe UI",12,2);
completer->popup()->setFont(popupFont);


ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->setEditable(true);
ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->setInsertPolicy(QComboBox::NoInsert);
ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->setModel(assignment_contacts);
ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->setModelColumn(1);
ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->completer()->setCompletionColumn(1);

ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->setCompleter(completer);
ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->lineEdit()->installEventFilter(this);  <-----

In the last line I set the EventFilter, its code is:

bool MainWindow::eventFilter(QObject *object, QEvent *event)
{
    if (object == ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->lineEdit()){
        if(event->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonPress){
            ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->lineEdit()->completer()->setCompletionPrefix(ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->lineEdit()->text());
            ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->lineEdit()->completer()->complete();
        }
    }
    return false;
}

It works PRACTICALLY as it should, when you click, the full list of elements is shown, but it works once, when the text is subsequently completely erased, there is nothing again, and you need to click the mouse again. I tried to solve this problem using the focusIn event, but it does not work, for some reason lineEdit() does not catch the Focus event. Any ideas?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 17 '22 at 14:41

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Put this code after installing event filter to lineEdit of your combobox:

//...
ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->installEventFilter(this);

And this one to eventFilter of MainWindow:

//...
if (object == ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts){
        if(event->type() == QEvent::KeyRelease && ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->currentText() == "")
        {
            ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->completer()->setCompletionPrefix("");
            ui->comboBox_NewClientContacts->completer()->complete();
        }
    }

Hope it helps!

answered Apr 17 '22 at 14:41

Abdurahmon

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Also I recommend to change return QMainWindow::eventFilter(object, event); instead of just returning false – Abdurahmon Apr 17 '22 at 14:42
thanks a lot, it really works. Two events (QEvent::KeyRelease && QEvent::MouseButtonPress) made almost perfect what was intended Can u say, what this return means? – Main question Apr 17 '22 at 16:16
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QMainWindow has been inherited from QWidget, QWidget's parent is QObject. eventFilter has been declared in it and by default it returns false too. But I think calling `QMainWindow::eventFilter` is good practice since the base class might have reimplemented this method for its own internal purposes. – Abdurahmon Apr 17 '22 at 23:17

Show all QCompleter elements on click

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