[scribus-dev] Who's eating Shift+Tab?

[Craig Bradney]

On 18/08/2011, at 17:02, Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com> wrote:

> False alarm,
> 
> I found the reason.
> 
> For some ungodly reason Qt does _not_ send an event with
> 
> key() == Qt::Key_Tab
> modifiers() == Qt::ShiftModifier
> 
> when Shift+Tab is pressed. Instead it sends one with
> 
> key() == Qt::Key_Backtab
> modifiers() == Qt::ShiftModifier
> 
> (Note the Key_Backtab).
> 
> Confusing!
> 
> Elvis
> 
> 2011/8/18 Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com>:
>> Short question:
>> 
>> Anyone know what in Scribus might prevent Shift+Tab from reaching my
>> table edit mode keypress handler?
>> 
>> Just Tab reaches it fine, but Shift+Tab is filtered somewhere higher up.
>> 
>> I've grepped for all occurances of "Key_Tab" and "ShiftModifier" but
>> so far I've been unable to find where it is caught :/
>> 
>> If anyone has an idea off the top of their heads, I'm idle ears.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Elvis
>> 
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Ah

Qt doesn't send the "base" key plus modifier , it sends the final key plus modifier. This means shift tab can produce different results on different keyboard layouts


Craig