On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:50:57 -0800, Brian Kelley <kel...@eyesopen.com> wrote: > Hmm, that is what I would have thought, you could always try calling the > table widget directory in the case of ignores. Actually, I'll bet you have > to do this since you have overridden the mousePressEvent function. > > QtGui.QTableWidget.mousePressEvent(event) > > > On 3/6/09 10:47 AM, "Marc Nations" <mnations.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks, wasn't aware of being able to accept events. > > So I tried this, instead of waiting for release I moved it up to when a > button is pressed to get a better idea of what was happening. I tried this: > > def mousePressEvent(self, event): > if event.button() == QtCore.Qt.RightButton: > event.accept() > self.rightClickMenu(event) > else: > event.ignore() > > According to the docs for the mouse events it should do this: "You should > call ignore > <http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qevent.html#ignore> > () if the mouse event is not handled by your widget. A mouse event is > propagated up the parent widget chain until a widget accepts it with accept > <http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qevent.html#accept> > (), or an event filter consumes it." > > My understanding of that is once I ignore the event it should automatically > try the base class, which in this case is the base table widget. However > using that code the left-click is basically disabled and nothing happens. > So the event just seems to get dropped at that point. Is there something > else I need to do to make the event retreat in the right direction?
I think you are getting confused between the class hierarchy and the widget hierarchy. An ignored event is passed to the parent widget not the base class. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
