PyQt Connect to KeyPressEvent

Question

Certain widgets will allow me to do:

self.widget.clicked.connect(on_click)

but doing:

self.widget.keyPressEvent.connect(on_         


        

Answer 1

The way I've done this in the past is (it is a work around), where this is in the sender and the receiver declares/connects to the signal.

def keyPressEvent(self, event):
    if type(event) == QtGui.QKeyEvent:
        if event.key() == QtCore.Qt.Key_Space:
            self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL('MYSIGNAL'))