[PATCH] propagate mouse events on widgets through the DOM

Tobias Anton TA at ESC-Electronics.de
Fri Jul 30 13:10:25 BST 2004


On Freitag, 30. Juli 2004 00:00, bj at altern.org wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 July 2004 18.51, Tobias Anton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > attached is a patch that puts mouse and keyboard events for all form
> > widgets under control of our DOM events API. With the current
> > implementation, this works already for simple widgets, but it fails with
> > file buttons, list boxes and textareas.
> >
> > Comments, suggestions, flames?
>
> The idea is nice, but I found problems with the listboxes and textareas:
> they now swallow "ctrl" and "alt" events. It means you cannot access
> Konqueror's menus anymore when a listbox or textarea is focused. Nor can
> you use the new "ctrl" accesskey system...
>
> I think these issues (at least access to the menu) should be fixed before
> committing...
> regards
> Jean-Baptiste

You know what? With my patch reverted, it doesnt't work either for file 
buttons, text areas and line edits.

So the problem must be elsewhere. Did I mention that QT's event model sucks?
Nontheless, I'll revert my patch so that nobody blames me :-)

Tobias





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