QLabel click event using Qt?

Question

I\'m new in Qt and have a question.

I have QLabel and QLineEdit objects, and when QLabel text is clicked on, I want to set thi

Answer 1

A simple way to accomplish that, without a need for any subclassing, is a signal source that monitors the events on some object and emits relevant signals:

// main.cpp - this is a single-file example
#include 

class MouseButtonSignaler : public QObject {
  Q_OBJECT
  bool eventFilter(QObject * obj, QEvent * ev) Q_DECL_OVERRIDE {
    if ((ev->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonPress
        || ev->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonRelease
        || ev->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonDblClick)
        && obj->isWidgetType())
      emit mouseButtonEvent(static_cast(obj), 
                            static_cast(ev));
    return false;
  }
public:
  Q_SIGNAL void mouseButtonEvent(QWidget *, QMouseEvent *);
  MouseButtonSignaler(QObject * parent = 0) : QObject(parent) {}
  void installOn(QWidget * widget) {
    widget->installEventFilter(this);
  }
};

The emit keyword is an empty macro, Qt defines it as follows:

#define emit

It is for use by humans as a documentation aid prefix only, the compiler and moc ignore it. As a documentation aid, it means: the following method call is a signal emission. The signals are simply methods whose implementation is generated for you by moc - that's why we have to #include "main.moc" below to include all the implementations that moc has generated for the object class(es) in this file. There's otherwise nothing special or magical to a signal. In this example, you could look in the build folder for a file called main.moc and see the implementation (definition) of void MouseButtonSignaler::mouseButtonEvent( .. ).

You can then install such a signaler on any number of widgets, such as a QLabel:

int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
  QApplication app(argc, argv);
  MouseButtonSignaler signaler;
  QWidget w;
  QVBoxLayout layout(&w);
  QLabel label("text");
  QLineEdit edit;
  layout.addWidget(&label);
  layout.addWidget(&edit);
  signaler.installOn(&label);
  QObject::connect(&signaler, &MouseButtonSignaler::mouseButtonEvent, 
    [&label, &edit](QWidget*, QMouseEvent * event) {
    if (event->type() == QEvent::MouseButtonPress)
      edit.setText(label.text());
  });
  w.show();
  return app.exec();
}

#include "main.moc"