> I'm just guessing here, but it might be that the menu bar's events don't get > delivered to the QMainWindow. they do, just not the events i want
> Or, perhaps this documented caveat is important: "Note: Events are only > delivered to this event handler if the widget has a native window handle." the widget does in fact have a native window handle (it is the main window) > You might be able to catch the events if you use > QCoreApplication::installNativeEventFilter i had tried that too but what i've discovered since is that on windows, Qt's implementation of the menu bar does NOT use native windows widgets, they're all custom drawn. hence we won't get any native windows menu bar messages. -dave _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
