Capture a keyboard keypress in the background

What you want is a global hotkey. Import needed libraries at the top of your class: // DLL libraries used to manage hotkeys [DllImport(“user32.dll”)] public static extern bool RegisterHotKey(IntPtr hWnd, int id, int fsModifiers, int vlc); [DllImport(“user32.dll”)] public static extern bool UnregisterHotKey(IntPtr hWnd, int id); Add a field in your class that will be a … Read more

How do you get a widget’s children in Qt?

You can use the findChild() function with the object name to get a specific child. You can also use findChildren() to get all the children that have the same name and then iterate through the list using foreach() or QListIterator. To get a button you can try: QPushButton* button = pWin->findChild<QPushButton*>(“Button name”);

Is there a way to send key presses to Webkit using Capybara?

I’ve been trying to implement Marc’s answer without any success, but I found some help from a similar question: capybara: fill in form field value with terminating enter key. And apparently there was a pull request from capybara that seems to address this issue. What worked for me was: before { fill_in “some_field_id”, with: “\t” … Read more

Unable to simulate keypress event in Angular 2 unit test (Jasmine)

I’ve had some trouble simulating a keypress in a unit test also. But came across an answer by Seyed Jalal Hosseini. It might be what you’re after. If you’re attempting to simulate a keypress you can trigger an event by calling dispatchEvent(new Event(‘keypress’)); on the element. Here is the answer I’m referring to which gives … Read more