On 16 July 2014 08:20, Sze Howe Koh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm on Windows 8.1 ×64. I got a HWND from an external process > (Notepad.exe, in this case) and embedded it inside a QWidget: > > // Get the HWND using Windows API > WId id = (WId)FindWindow(NULL, L"Untitled - Notepad"); > > // Embed the window in a widget > QWindow* window = QWindow::fromWinId(id); > QWidget* widget = QWidget::createWindowContainer(window); > widget->show(); > > > The embedded Notepad can receive mouse clicks and drags -- I can use > the mouse to highlight text, and use the right-click menu to > copy+paste text. However,, it doesn’t respond to mouse wheels and key > presses. Does anyone know how I can restore these events? > > I got the same results from both MinGW 4.8.2 and MSVC 2013 (both Qt 5.3.1). > > > Thanks in advance!
Looks like a bug in the Windows implementation -- The issue doesn't exist on Ubuntu 14.04. I've opened https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-40320 which contains a list of issues related to embedding and releasing foreign windows in both Windows and Linux. Regards, Sze-Howe _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
