class Qt#

The Qt namespace contains miscellaneous identifiers used throughout the Qt library. More

Synopsis#

Static functions#

Note

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Detailed Description#

class GlobalColor#

Qt’s predefined QColor objects:

Constant

Description

Qt.white

White (#ffffff)

Qt.black

Black (#000000)

Qt.red

Red (#ff0000)

Qt.darkRed

Dark red (#800000)

Qt.green

Green (#00ff00)

Qt.darkGreen

Dark green (#008000)

Qt.blue

Blue (#0000ff)

Qt.darkBlue

Dark blue (#000080)

Qt.cyan

Cyan (#00ffff)

Qt.darkCyan

Dark cyan (#008080)

Qt.magenta

Magenta (#ff00ff)

Qt.darkMagenta

Dark magenta (#800080)

Qt.yellow

Yellow (#ffff00)

Qt.darkYellow

Dark yellow (#808000)

Qt.gray

Gray (#a0a0a4)

Qt.darkGray

Dark gray (#808080)

Qt.lightGray

Light gray (#c0c0c0)

Qt.transparent

a transparent black value (i.e., QColor(0, 0, 0, 0))

Qt.color0

0 pixel value (for bitmaps)

Qt.color1

1 pixel value (for bitmaps)

See also

QColor

class ColorScheme#

Represents the appearance of an application’s theme, defined by QGuiApplication::palette().

Constant

Description

Qt.ColorScheme.Unknown

The appearance is unknown.

Qt.ColorScheme.Light

The background colors are lighter than the text color, i.e. the theme is light.

Qt.ColorScheme.Dark

The background colors are darker than the text color, i.e. the theme is dark.

New in version 6.5.

class MouseButton#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum type describes the different mouse buttons.

Constant

Description

Qt.NoButton

The button state does not refer to any button (see QMouseEvent::button()).

Qt.AllButtons

This value corresponds to a mask of all possible mouse buttons. Use to set the ‘acceptedButtons’ property of a MouseArea to accept ALL mouse buttons.

Qt.LeftButton

The left button is pressed, or an event refers to the left button. (The left button may be the right button on left-handed mice.)

Qt.RightButton

The right button.

Qt.MiddleButton

The middle button.

Qt.BackButton

The ‘Back’ button. (Typically present on the ‘thumb’ side of a mouse with extra buttons. This is NOT the tilt wheel.)

Qt.XButton1

The ‘Back’ Button.

Qt.ExtraButton1

The ‘Back’ Button.

Qt.ForwardButton

The ‘Forward’ Button. (Typically present beside the ‘Back’ button, and also pressed by the thumb.)

Qt.XButton2

The ‘Forward Button.

Qt.ExtraButton2

The ‘Forward’ Button.

Qt.TaskButton

The ‘Task’ Button.

Qt.ExtraButton3

The ‘Task’ Button.

Qt.ExtraButton4

The 7th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton5

The 8th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton6

The 9th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton7

The 10th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton8

The 11th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton9

The 12th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton10

The 13th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton11

The 14th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton12

The 15th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton13

The 16th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton14

The 17th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton15

The 18th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton16

The 19th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton17

The 20th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton18

The 21st non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton19

The 22nd non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton20

The 23rd non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton21

The 24th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton22

The 25th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton23

The 26th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Qt.ExtraButton24

The 27th non-wheel Mouse Button.

Note

Some models of multi-button mice are pre-configured with high-numbered Buttons emulating keyboard sequences, for use in specific games. In order for these Buttons to be seen as actual ‘Mouse Buttons’, the device must be re-configured (using the vendor’s configuration tool).

class Orientation#

(inherits enum.Flag) This type is used to signify an object’s orientation.

Constant

Description

Qt.Horizontal

Qt.Vertical

Orientation is used with QScrollBar for example.

class FocusPolicy#

(inherits enum.IntFlag) This enum type defines the various policies a widget can have with respect to acquiring keyboard focus.

Constant

Description

Qt.TabFocus

the widget accepts focus by tabbing.

Qt.ClickFocus

the widget accepts focus by clicking.

Qt.StrongFocus

the widget accepts focus by both tabbing and clicking. On macOS this will also be indicate that the widget accepts tab focus when in ‘Text/List focus mode’.

Qt.WheelFocus

like Qt::StrongFocus plus the widget accepts focus by using the mouse wheel.

Qt.NoFocus

the widget does not accept focus.

class TabFocusBehavior#

This enum type provides different focus behaviors for tab navigation.

Constant

Description

Qt.NoTabFocus

iterate nothing.

Qt.TabFocusTextControls

iterate text controls and widgets.

Qt.TabFocusListControls

iterate list controls and widgets.

Qt.TabFocusAllControls

iterate all controls and widgets.

class SortOrder#

This enum describes how the items in a widget are sorted.

Constant

Description

Qt.AscendingOrder

The items are sorted ascending e.g. starts with ‘AAA’ ends with ‘ZZZ’ in Latin-1 locales

Qt.DescendingOrder

The items are sorted descending e.g. starts with ‘ZZZ’ ends with ‘AAA’ in Latin-1 locales

class SplitBehaviorFlags#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum specifies how the split() functions should behave with respect to empty strings.

Constant

Description

Qt.KeepEmptyParts

If a field is empty, keep it in the result.

Qt.SkipEmptyParts

If a field is empty, don’t include it in the result.

See also

split()

class TileRule#

This enum describes how to repeat or stretch the parts of an image when drawing.

Constant

Description

Qt.StretchTile

Scale the image to fit to the available area.

Qt.RepeatTile

Repeat the image until there is no more space. May crop the last image.

Qt.RoundTile

Similar to Repeat, but scales the image down to ensure that the last tile is not cropped.

New in version 4.6.

class AlignmentFlag#

(inherits enum.IntFlag) This enum type is used to describe alignment. It contains horizontal and vertical flags that can be combined to produce the required effect.

The TextElideMode enum can also be used in many situations to fine-tune the appearance of aligned text.

The horizontal flags are:

Constant

Description

Qt.AlignLeft

Aligns with the left edge.

Qt.AlignRight

Aligns with the right edge.

Qt.AlignHCenter

Centers horizontally in the available space.

Qt.AlignJustify

Justifies the text in the available space.

The vertical flags are:

Constant

Description

Qt.AlignTop

Aligns with the top.

Qt.AlignBottom

Aligns with the bottom.

Qt.AlignVCenter

Centers vertically in the available space.

Qt.AlignBaseline

Aligns with the baseline.

You can use only one of the horizontal flags at a time. There is one two-dimensional flag:

Constant

Description

Qt.AlignCenter

Centers in both dimensions.

You can use at most one horizontal and one vertical flag at a time. Qt::AlignCenter counts as both horizontal and vertical.

Three enum values are useful in applications that can be run in right-to-left mode:

Constant

Description

Qt.AlignAbsolute

If the widget’s layout direction is RightToLeft (instead of LeftToRight , the default), Qt::AlignLeft refers to the right edge and Qt::AlignRight to the left edge. This is normally the desired behavior. If you want Qt::AlignLeft to always mean “left” and Qt::AlignRight to always mean “right”, combine the flag with Qt::AlignAbsolute.

Qt.AlignLeading

Synonym for Qt::AlignLeft.

Qt.AlignTrailing

Synonym for Qt::AlignRight.

Masks:

Constant

Description

Qt.AlignHorizontal_Mask

Qt.AlignVertical_Mask

Conflicting combinations of flags have undefined meanings.

class TextFlag#

(inherits enum.IntFlag) This enum type is used to define some modifier flags. Some of these flags only make sense in the context of printing:

Constant

Description

Qt.TextSingleLine

Treats all whitespace as spaces and prints just one line.

Qt.TextDontClip

If it’s impossible to stay within the given bounds, it prints outside.

Qt.TextExpandTabs

Makes the U+0009 (ASCII tab) character move to the next tab stop.

Qt.TextShowMnemonic

Displays the string “&P” as P For an ampersand, use “&&”.

Qt.TextWordWrap

Breaks lines at appropriate points, e.g. at word boundaries.

Qt.TextWrapAnywhere

Breaks lines anywhere, even within words.

Qt.TextHideMnemonic

Same as Qt::TextShowMnemonic but doesn’t draw the underlines.

Qt.TextDontPrint

Treat this text as “hidden” and don’t print it.

Qt.TextIncludeTrailingSpaces

When this option is set, QTextLine::naturalTextWidth() and QTextLine::naturalTextRect() will return a value that includes the width of trailing spaces in the text; otherwise this width is excluded.

Qt.TextJustificationForced

Ensures that text lines are justified.

You can use as many modifier flags as you want, except that Qt::TextSingleLine and Qt::TextWordWrap cannot be combined.

Flags that are inappropriate for a given use are generally ignored.

class TextElideMode#

This enum specifies where the ellipsis should appear when displaying texts that don’t fit:

Constant

Description

Qt.ElideLeft

The ellipsis should appear at the beginning of the text.

Qt.ElideRight

The ellipsis should appear at the end of the text.

Qt.ElideMiddle

The ellipsis should appear in the middle of the text.

Qt.ElideNone

Ellipsis should NOT appear in the text. When passed to functions such as QFontMetrics::elidedText(), this will cause the full string to return unless the text contains multi-length variants. Elision in this case must be done by clipping to the component width.

Qt::ElideMiddle is normally the most appropriate choice for URLs (e.g., “ http://bugreports.qt…/QTWEBSITE-13/ “), whereas Qt::ElideRight is appropriate for other strings (e.g., “ Deploying Applications on Ma… “).

See also

AlignmentFlag elideMode

class WhiteSpaceMode#

This enum describes the types of whitespace mode that are used by the QTextDocument class to meet the requirements of different kinds of textual information.

Constant

Description

Qt.WhiteSpaceNormal

The whitespace mode used to display normal word wrapped text in paragraphs.

Qt.WhiteSpacePre

A preformatted text mode in which whitespace is reproduced exactly.

Qt.WhiteSpaceNoWrap

class HitTestAccuracy#

This enum contains the types of accuracy that can be used by the QTextDocument class when testing for mouse clicks on text documents.

Constant

Description

Qt.ExactHit

The point at which input occurred must coincide exactly with input-sensitive parts of the document.

Qt.FuzzyHit

The point at which input occurred can lie close to input-sensitive parts of the document.

class WindowType#

(inherits enum.IntFlag) This enum type is used to specify various window-system properties for the widget. They are fairly unusual but necessary in a few cases. Some of these flags depend on whether the underlying window manager supports them.

The main types are

Constant

Description

Qt.Widget

This is the default type for QWidget. Widgets of this type are child widgets if they have a parent, and independent windows if they have no parent. See also Qt::Window and Qt::SubWindow.

Qt.Window

Indicates that the widget is a window, usually with a window system frame and a title bar, irrespective of whether the widget has a parent or not. Note that it is not possible to unset this flag if the widget does not have a parent.

Qt.Dialog

Indicates that the widget is a window that should be decorated as a dialog (i.e., typically no maximize or minimize buttons in the title bar). This is the default type for QDialog. If you want to use it as a modal dialog, it should be launched from another window, or have a parent and used with the QWidget::windowModality property. If you make it modal, the dialog will prevent other top-level windows in the application from getting any input. We refer to a top-level window that has a parent as a secondary window.

Qt.Sheet

Indicates that the window is a sheet on macOS. Since using a sheet implies window modality, the recommended way is to use QWidget::setWindowModality(), or QDialog::open(), instead.

Qt.Drawer

Indicates that the widget is a drawer on macOS. This feature is obsolete. Setting the flag has no effect.

Qt.Popup

Indicates that the widget is a pop-up top-level window, i.e. that it is modal, but has a window system frame appropriate for pop-up menus.

Qt.Tool

Indicates that the widget is a tool window. A tool window is often a small window with a smaller than usual title bar and decoration, typically used for collections of tool buttons. If there is a parent, the tool window will always be kept on top of it. If there isn’t a parent, you may consider using Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint as well. If the window system supports it, a tool window can be decorated with a somewhat lighter frame. It can also be combined with Qt::FramelessWindowHint. On macOS, tool windows correspond to the NSPanel class of windows. This means that the window lives on a level above normal windows making it impossible to put a normal window on top of it. By default, tool windows will disappear when the application is inactive. This can be controlled by the WA_MacAlwaysShowToolWindow attribute.

Qt.ToolTip

Indicates that the widget is a tooltip. This is used internally to implement tooltips.

Qt.SplashScreen

Indicates that the window is a splash screen. This is the default type for QSplashScreen.

Qt.SubWindow

Indicates that this widget is a sub-window, such as a QMdiSubWindow widget.

Qt.ForeignWindow

Indicates that this window object is a handle representing a native platform window created by another process or by manually using native code.

Qt.CoverWindow

Indicates that the window represents a cover window, which is shown when the application is minimized on some platforms.

There are also a number of flags which you can use to customize the appearance of top-level windows. These have no effect on other windows:

Constant

Description

Qt.MSWindowsFixedSizeDialogHint

Gives the window a thin dialog border on Windows. This style is traditionally used for fixed-size dialogs.

Note

The use of this flag is not recommended in multi-monitor environments. This is because the system will enforce that the window maintains its native size when moving it across screens. This is particularly undesirable when using monitors with different resolutions.

Constant

Description

Qt.MSWindowsOwnDC

Gives the window its own display context on Windows.

Qt.BypassWindowManagerHint

This flag can be used to indicate to the platform plugin that “all” window manager protocols should be disabled. This flag will behave different depending on what operating system the application is running on and what window manager is running. The flag can be used to get a native window with no configuration set.

Qt.X11BypassWindowManagerHint

Bypass the window manager completely. This results in a borderless window that is not managed at all (i.e., no keyboard input unless you call QWidget::activateWindow() manually).

Qt.FramelessWindowHint

Produces a borderless window.

On X11, the result of the flag is dependent on the window manager and its ability to understand Motif and/or NETWM hints. Most existing modern window managers can handle this.

Note

If the window manager relies on the frame to interactively manipulate the window, the user can no longer move or resize the window via the window system, but this side effect should not be relied on. To produce a fixed size window that can not be resized, please set QWindow::setMinimumSize() and QWindow::setMaximumSize() to the same size.

Constant

Description

Qt.NoDropShadowWindowHint

Disables window drop shadow on supporting platforms.

The CustomizeWindowHint flag is used to enable customization of the window controls. This flag must be set to allow the WindowTitleHint, WindowSystemMenuHint, WindowMinimizeButtonHint, WindowMaximizeButtonHint and WindowCloseButtonHint flags to be changed.

Constant

Description

Qt.CustomizeWindowHint

Turns off the default window title hints.

Qt.WindowTitleHint

Gives the window a title bar.

Qt.WindowSystemMenuHint

Adds a window system menu, and possibly a close button (for example on Mac). If you need to hide or show a close button, it is more portable to use WindowCloseButtonHint.

Qt.WindowMinimizeButtonHint

Adds a minimize button. On some platforms this implies Qt::WindowSystemMenuHint for it to work.

Qt.WindowMaximizeButtonHint

Adds a maximize button. On some platforms this implies Qt::WindowSystemMenuHint for it to work.

Qt.WindowMinMaxButtonsHint

Adds a minimize and a maximize button. On some platforms this implies Qt::WindowSystemMenuHint for it to work.

Qt.WindowCloseButtonHint

Adds a close button. On some platforms this implies Qt::WindowSystemMenuHint for it to work.

Qt.WindowContextHelpButtonHint

Adds a context help button to dialogs. On some platforms this implies Qt::WindowSystemMenuHint for it to work.

Qt.MacWindowToolBarButtonHint

On macOS adds a tool bar button (i.e., the oblong button that is on the top right of windows that have toolbars).

Qt.WindowFullscreenButtonHint

On macOS adds a fullscreen button.

Qt.BypassGraphicsProxyWidget

Prevents the window and its children from automatically embedding themselves into a QGraphicsProxyWidget if the parent widget is already embedded. You can set this flag if you want your widget to always be a toplevel widget on the desktop, regardless of whether the parent widget is embedded in a scene or not.

Qt.WindowShadeButtonHint

Adds a shade button in place of the minimize button if the underlying window manager supports it.

Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint

Informs the window system that the window should stay on top of all other windows. Note that on some window managers on X11 you also have to pass Qt::X11BypassWindowManagerHint for this flag to work correctly.

Qt.WindowStaysOnBottomHint

Informs the window system that the window should stay on bottom of all other windows.

Note

On X11, this hint will work only in window managers that support _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW atom. If a window always on the bottom has a parent, the parent will also be left on the bottom. This window hint is currently not implemented for macOS.

Note

On Windows, this will work only for frameless or full-screen windows.

Constant

Description

Qt.WindowTransparentForInput

Informs the window system that this window is used only for output (displaying something) and does not take input. Therefore input events should pass through as if it wasn’t there.

Qt.WindowOverridesSystemGestures

Informs the window system that this window implements its own set of gestures and that system level gestures, like for instance three-finger desktop switching, should be disabled.

Qt.WindowDoesNotAcceptFocus

Informs the window system that this window should not receive the input focus.

Qt.MaximizeUsingFullscreenGeometryHint

Informs the window system that when maximizing the window it should use as much of the available screen geometry as possible, including areas that may be covered by system UI such as status bars or application launchers. This may result in the window being placed under these system UIs, but does not guarantee it, depending on whether or not the platform supports it. When the flag is enabled the user is responsible for taking QScreen::availableGeometry() into account, so that any UI elements in the application that require user interaction are not covered by system UI.

Qt.WindowType_Mask

A mask for extracting the window type part of the window flags.

See also

windowFlagsWindow Flags Example

class WindowState#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum type is used to specify the current state of a top-level window.

The states are

Constant

Description

Qt.WindowNoState

The window has no state set (in normal state).

Qt.WindowMinimized

The window is minimized (i.e. iconified).

Qt.WindowMaximized

The window is maximized with a frame around it.

Qt.WindowFullScreen

The window fills the entire screen without any frame around it.

Qt.WindowActive

The window is the active window, i.e. it has keyboard focus.

class ApplicationState#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum type is used to specify the current state of the application.

The states are

Constant

Description

Qt.ApplicationSuspended

The application is about to suspend. When entering this state, the application should save its state, cease all activities, and be prepared for code execution to stop. While suspended, the application can be killed at any time without further warnings (e.g. when low memory forces the OS to purge suspended applications).

Qt.ApplicationHidden

The application is hidden and runs in the background. This is the normal state for applications that need to do background processing, like playing music, while the user interacts with other applications. The application should free up all graphical resources when entering this state.

Qt.ApplicationInactive

The application is visible, but not selected to be in front. On desktop platforms, this typically means that the user activated another application. On mobile platforms, it is more common to enter this state when the OS is interrupting the user with e.g. incoming calls or SMS-messages. While in this state, consider reducing CPU-intensive tasks.

Qt.ApplicationActive

The application is visible and selected to be in front.

class ScreenOrientation#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum type specifies the various orientations a screen might have.

Constant

Description

Qt.PrimaryOrientation

The display’s primary orientation.

Qt.LandscapeOrientation

Landscape orientation, display width is greater than display height.

Qt.PortraitOrientation

Portrait orientation, display height is greater than display width, rotated 90 degree clockwise relative to landscape.

Qt.InvertedLandscapeOrientation

Inverted landscape orientation, rotated 180 degrees relative to landscape.

Qt.InvertedPortraitOrientation

Inverted portrait orientation, rotated 180 degrees relative to portrait.

class WidgetAttribute#

This enum type is used to specify various widget attributes. Attributes are set and cleared with QWidget::setAttribute(), and queried with QWidget::testAttribute(), although some have special convenience functions which are mentioned below.

Constant

Description

Qt.WA_AcceptDrops

Allows data from drag and drop operations to be dropped onto the widget (see QWidget::setAcceptDrops()).

Qt.WA_AlwaysShowToolTips

Enables tooltips for inactive windows.

Qt.WA_CustomWhatsThis

Indicates that the widget wants to continue operating normally in “What’s This?” mode. This is set by the widget’s author.

Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose

Makes Qt delete this widget when the widget has accepted the close event (see QWidget::closeEvent()).

Qt.WA_Disabled

Indicates that the widget is disabled, i.e. it does not receive any mouse or keyboard events. There is also a getter functions QWidget::isEnabled(). This is set/cleared by the Qt kernel.

Qt.WA_DontShowOnScreen

Indicates that the widget is hidden or is not a part of the viewable Desktop.

Qt.WA_ForceDisabled

Indicates that the widget is explicitly disabled, i.e. it will remain disabled even when all its ancestors are set to the enabled state. This implies WA_Disabled. This is set/cleared by QWidget::setEnabled() and QWidget::setDisabled().

Qt.WA_ForceUpdatesDisabled

Indicates that updates are explicitly disabled for the widget; i.e. it will remain disabled even when all its ancestors are set to the updates-enabled state. This implies WA_UpdatesDisabled. This is set/cleared by QWidget::setUpdatesEnabled().

Qt.WA_Hover

Forces Qt to generate paint events when the mouse enters or leaves the widget. This feature is typically used when implementing custom styles.

Qt.WA_InputMethodEnabled

Enables input methods for Asian languages. Must be set when creating custom text editing widgets.

Qt.WA_KeyboardFocusChange

Set on a toplevel window when the users changes focus with the keyboard (tab, backtab, or shortcut).

Qt.WA_KeyCompression

Enables key event compression if set, and disables it if not set. By default key compression is off, so widgets receive one key press event for each key press (or more, since autorepeat is usually on). If you turn it on and your program doesn’t keep up with key input, Qt may try to compress key events so that more than one character can be processed in each event. For example, a word processor widget might receive 2, 3 or more characters in each QKeyEvent::text(), if the layout recalculation takes too long for the CPU. If a widget supports multiple character unicode input, it is always safe to turn the compression on. Qt performs key event compression only for printable characters. Modifier keys, cursor movement keys, function keys and miscellaneous action keys (e.g. Escape, Enter, Backspace, PrintScreen) will stop key event compression, even if there are more compressible key events available. Platforms other than Mac and X11 do not support this compression, in which case turning it on will have no effect. This is set/cleared by the widget’s author.

Qt.WA_LayoutOnEntireRect

Indicates that the widget wants QLayout to operate on the entire QWidget::rect(), not only on QWidget::contentsRect(). This is set by the widget’s author.

Qt.WA_LayoutUsesWidgetRect

Ignore the layout item rect from the style when laying out this widget with QLayout.

Qt.WA_MacOpaqueSizeGrip

Indicates that the native size grip should be opaque instead of transparent (the default). This attribute is only applicable to macOS and is set by the widget’s author.

Qt.WA_MacShowFocusRect

Indicates that this widget should get a QFocusFrame around it. Some widgets draw their own focus halo regardless of this attribute. Not that the QWidget::focusPolicy also plays the main role in whether something is given focus or not, this only controls whether or not this gets the focus frame. This attribute is only applicable to macOS.

Qt.WA_MacNormalSize

Indicates the widget should have the normal size for widgets in macOS. This attribute is only applicable to macOS.

Qt.WA_MacSmallSize

Indicates the widget should have the small size for widgets in macOS. This attribute is only applicable to macOS.

Qt.WA_MacMiniSize

Indicates the widget should have the mini size for widgets in macOS. This attribute is only applicable to macOS.

Qt.WA_Mapped

Indicates that the widget is mapped on screen. This is set/cleared by the Qt kernel.

Qt.WA_MouseNoMask

Makes the widget receive mouse events for the entire widget regardless of the currently set mask, overriding QWidget::setMask(). This is not applicable for top-level windows.

Qt.WA_MouseTracking

Indicates that the widget has mouse tracking enabled. See QWidget::mouseTracking.

Qt.WA_Moved

Indicates that the widget has an explicit position. This is set/cleared by QWidget::move() and by QWidget::setGeometry().

Qt.WA_NoChildEventsForParent

Indicates that the widget does not want ChildAdded or ChildRemoved events sent to its parent. This is rarely necessary but can help to avoid automatic insertion widgets like splitters and layouts. This is set by a widget’s author.

Qt.WA_NoChildEventsFromChildren

Indicates that the widget does not want to receive ChildAdded or ChildRemoved events sent from its children. This is set by a widget’s author.

Qt.WA_NoMouseReplay

Used for pop-up widgets. Indicates that the most recent mouse press event should not be replayed when the pop-up widget closes. The flag is set by the widget’s author and cleared by the Qt kernel every time the widget receives a new mouse event.

Qt.WA_NoMousePropagation

Prohibits mouse events from being propagated to the widget’s parent. This attribute is disabled by default.

Qt.WA_TransparentForMouseEvents

When enabled, this attribute disables the delivery of mouse events to the widget and its children. Mouse events are delivered to other widgets as if the widget and its children were not present in the widget hierarchy; mouse clicks and other events effectively “pass through” them. This attribute is disabled by default.

Qt.WA_NoSystemBackground

Indicates that the widget has no background, i.e. when the widget receives paint events, the background is not automatically repainted. Note: Unlike WA_OpaquePaintEvent, newly exposed areas are never filled with the background (e.g., after showing a window for the first time the user can see “through” it until the application processes the paint events). This flag is set or cleared by the widget’s author.

Qt.WA_OpaquePaintEvent

Indicates that the widget paints all its pixels when it receives a paint event. Thus, it is not required for operations like updating, resizing, scrolling and focus changes to erase the widget before generating paint events. The use of WA_OpaquePaintEvent provides a small optimization by helping to reduce flicker on systems that do not support double buffering and avoiding computational cycles necessary to erase the background prior to painting. Note: Unlike WA_NoSystemBackground, WA_OpaquePaintEvent makes an effort to avoid transparent window backgrounds. This flag is set or cleared by the widget’s author.

Qt.WA_OutsideWSRange

Indicates that the widget is outside the valid range of the window system’s coordinate system. A widget outside the valid range cannot be mapped on screen. This is set/cleared by the Qt kernel.

Qt.WA_PaintOnScreen

Indicates that the widget wants to draw directly onto the screen. Widgets with this attribute set do not participate in composition management, i.e. they cannot be semi-transparent or shine through semi-transparent overlapping widgets. Note: This flag is only supported on X11 and it disables double buffering. On Qt for Embedded Linux, the flag only works when set on a top-level widget and it relies on support from the active screen driver. This flag is set or cleared by the widget’s author. To render outside of Qt’s paint system, e.g., if you require native painting primitives, you need to reimplement QWidget::paintEngine() to return 0 and set this flag.

Qt.WA_PaintUnclipped

Makes all painters operating on this widget unclipped. Children of this widget or other widgets in front of it do not clip the area the painter can paint on. This flag is only supported for widgets with the WA_PaintOnScreen flag set. The preferred way to do this in a cross platform way is to create a transparent widget that lies in front of the other widgets.

Qt.WA_PendingMoveEvent

Indicates that a move event is pending, e.g., when a hidden widget was moved. This flag is set or cleared by the Qt kernel.

Qt.WA_PendingResizeEvent

Indicates that a resize event is pending, e.g., when a hidden widget was resized. This flag is set or cleared by the Qt kernel.

Qt.WA_QuitOnClose

Indicates that the widget should be taken into account when deciding whether to quit the application when the last window is closed. This behavior can be modified with the QGuiApplication::quitOnLastWindowClosed property. By default this attribute is set for all widgets of type Window .

Qt.WA_Resized

Indicates that the widget has an explicit size. This flag is set or cleared by QWidget::resize() and QWidget::setGeometry().

Qt.WA_RightToLeft

Indicates that the layout direction for the widget is right to left.

Qt.WA_SetCursor

Indicates that the widget has a cursor of its own. This flag is set or cleared by QWidget::setCursor() and QWidget::unsetCursor().

Qt.WA_SetFont

Indicates that the widget has a font of its own. This flag is set or cleared by QWidget::setFont().

Qt.WA_SetPalette

Indicates that the widget has a palette of its own. This flag is set or cleared by QWidget::setPalette().

Qt.WA_SetStyle

Indicates that the widget has a style of its own. This flag is set or cleared by QWidget::setStyle().

Qt.WA_ShowModal

This attribute has been deprecated. Use QWidget::windowModality instead.

Qt.WA_StaticContents

Indicates that the widget contents are north-west aligned and static. On resize, such a widget will receive paint events only for parts of itself that are newly visible. This flag is set or cleared by the widget’s author.

Qt.WA_StyleSheet

Indicates that the widget is styled using a style sheet. WA_StyleSheet is set whenever a widget is subject to a style sheet, even if the style sheet did not affect the widget appearance.

Qt.WA_StyleSheetTarget

Indicates that the widget appearance was modified by a style sheet. WA_StyleSheet will also be set. This value was introduced in Qt 5.12.

Qt.WA_TabletTracking

Indicates that the widget has tablet tracking enabled. See QWidget::tabletTracking.

Qt.WA_TranslucentBackground

Indicates that the widget should have a translucent background, i.e., any non-opaque regions of the widgets will be translucent because the widget will have an alpha channel. Setting this flag causes WA_NoSystemBackground to be set. On Windows the widget also needs the FramelessWindowHint window flag to be set. This flag is set or cleared by the widget’s author. As of Qt 5.0, toggling this attribute after the widget has been shown is not uniformly supported across platforms. When translucent background is desired, set the attribute early when creating the widget, and avoid altering it afterwards.

Qt.WA_UnderMouse

Indicates that the widget is under the mouse cursor. The value is not updated correctly during drag and drop operations. There is also a getter function, QWidget::underMouse(). This flag is set or cleared by the Qt kernel.

Qt.WA_UpdatesDisabled

Indicates that updates are blocked (including the system background). This flag is set or cleared by the Qt kernel. Warning: This flag must never be set or cleared by the widget’s author.

Qt.WA_WindowModified

Indicates that the window is marked as modified. On some platforms this flag will do nothing, on others (including macOS and Windows) the window will take a modified appearance. This flag is set or cleared by QWidget::setWindowModified().

Qt.WA_WindowPropagation

Makes a toplevel window inherit font, palette and locale from its parent.

Qt.WA_MacAlwaysShowToolWindow

On macOS, show the tool window even when the application is not active. By default, all tool windows are hidden when the application is inactive.

Qt.WA_SetLocale

Indicates the locale should be taken into consideration in the widget.

Qt.WA_StyledBackground

Indicates the widget should be drawn using a styled background.

Qt.WA_ShowWithoutActivating

Show the widget without making it active.

Qt.WA_NativeWindow

Indicates that a native window is created for the widget. Enabling this flag will also force a native window for the widget’s ancestors unless Qt::WA_DontCreateNativeAncestors is set.

Qt.WA_DontCreateNativeAncestors

Indicates that the widget’s ancestors are kept non-native even though the widget itself is native.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeDesktop

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeDock

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeToolBar

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_TOOLBAR to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms. Note: Qt automatically sets this attribute for QToolBar.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeMenu

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_MENU to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms. Note: Qt automatically sets this attribute for QMenu when torn-off.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeUtility

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_UTILITY to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms. Note: Qt automatically sets this attribute for the Tool window type.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeSplash

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms. Note: Qt automatically sets this attribute for the SplashScreen window type.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeDialog

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms. Note: Qt automatically sets this attribute for the Dialog and Sheet window types.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeDropDownMenu

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DROPDOWN_MENU to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms. Note: Qt automatically sets this attribute for QMenu objects added to a QMenuBar.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypePopupMenu

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_POPUP_MENU to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms. Note: Qt automatically sets this attribute for QMenu.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeToolTip

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_TOOLTIP to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms. Note: Qt automatically sets this attribute for the ToolTip window type.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeNotification

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NOTIFICATION to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeCombo

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_COMBO to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms. Note: Qt automatically sets this attribute for the QComboBox pop-up.

Qt.WA_X11NetWmWindowTypeDND

Adds _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DND to the window’s _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE X11 window property. See http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/ for more details. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms. Note: Qt automatically sets this attribute on the feedback widget used during a drag.

Qt.WA_AcceptTouchEvents

Allows touch events (see QTouchEvent) to be sent to the widget. Must be set on all widgets that can handle touch events. Without this attribute set, events from a touch device will be sent as mouse events.

Qt.WA_TouchPadAcceptSingleTouchEvents

Allows touchpad single touch events to be sent to the widget.

Qt.WA_X11DoNotAcceptFocus

Asks the window manager to not give focus to this top level window. This attribute has no effect on non-X11 platforms.

Qt.WA_AlwaysStackOnTop

Forces QOpenGLWidget and QQuickWidget to be drawn last, on top of other widgets. Ignored for other type of widgets. Setting this attribute breaks the stacking order, but allows having a semi-transparent OpenGL widget with other widgets visible underneath. It is strongly recommended to call update() on the widget’s top-level window after enabling or disabling this attribute.

Qt.WA_ContentsMarginsRespectsSafeArea

A QWidget respects the safe area margins of a window by incorporating the margins into its contents’ margins by default. This means, that a QLayout will use the content area of a widget for its layout, unless the Qt::WA_LayoutOnEntireRect attribute is set. This along with a contents margin of 0 can be used on the actual layout, to allow for example a background image to underlay the status bar and other system areas on an iOS device, while still allowing child widgets of that background to be inset based on the safe area.

class ApplicationAttribute#

This enum describes attributes that change the behavior of application-wide features. These are enabled and disabled using QCoreApplication::setAttribute(), and can be tested for with QCoreApplication::testAttribute().

Constant

Description

Qt.AA_QtQuickDontUseDefaultSizePolicy

Qt Quick Layouts won’t use the built-in size policy of Item. This restores previous behavior where all items were fixed size by default. Size policy can be customized by explicitly setting Layout.fillWidth or Layout.fillHeight.

Qt.AA_DontShowIconsInMenus

Actions with the Icon property won’t be shown in any menus unless specifically set by the QAction::iconVisibleInMenu property. Menus that are currently open or menus already created in the native macOS menubar may not pick up a change in this attribute. Changes in the QAction::iconVisibleInMenu property will always be picked up.

Qt.AA_DontShowShortcutsInContextMenus

Actions with the Shortcut property won’t be shown in any shortcut menus unless specifically set by the QAction::shortcutVisibleInContextMenu property. This value was added in Qt 5.10, and is by default based on the value reported by QStyleHints::showShortcutsInContextMenus(). To override the default behavior, set the style hint before QCoreApplication has been instantiated, or set this attribute after QCoreApplication has been instantiated.

Qt.AA_NativeWindows

Ensures that widgets have native windows.

Qt.AA_DontCreateNativeWidgetSiblings

Ensures that siblings of native widgets stay non-native unless specifically set by the WA_NativeWindow attribute.

Qt.AA_PluginApplication

Indicates that Qt is used to author a plugin. Depending on the operating system, it suppresses specific initializations that do not necessarily make sense in the plugin case. For example on macOS, this includes avoiding loading our nib for the main menu and not taking possession of the native menu bar. Setting this attribute to true will also set the AA_DontUseNativeMenuBar attribute to true. It also disables native event filters. This attribute must be set before QGuiApplication constructed. This value was added in Qt 5.7.

Qt.AA_DontUseNativeMenuBar

All menubars created while this attribute is set to true won’t be used as a native menubar (e.g, the menubar at the top of the main screen on macOS).

Qt.AA_MacDontSwapCtrlAndMeta

Keyboard shortcuts on Apple platforms are typically based on the Command (or Cmd) keyboard modifier, represented by the ⌘ symbol. For example, the ‘Copy’ action is Command+C (⌘+C). To ease cross platform development Qt will by default remap Command to the ControlModifier , to align with other platforms. This allows creating keyboard shortcuts such as “Ctrl+J”, which on macOS will then map to Command+J, as expected by macOS users. The actual Control (or Ctrl) modifier on Apple platforms, represented by ⌃, is mapped to MetaModifier .

When this attribute is true Qt will not do the remapping, and pressing the Command modifier will result in MetaModifier , while pressing the Control modifier will result in ControlModifier .

Note that the QKeySequence::StandardKey sequences will always be based on the same modifier (i.e., QKeySequence::Copy will be Command+C regardless of the value set), but what is output for QKeySequence::toString() will be different.

Constant

Description

Qt.AA_Use96Dpi

Assume the screen has a resolution of 96 DPI rather than using the OS-provided resolution. This will cause font rendering to be consistent in pixels-per-point across devices rather than defining 1 point as 1/72 inch.

Qt.AA_SynthesizeTouchForUnhandledMouseEvents

All mouse events that are not accepted by the application will be translated to touch events instead.

Qt.AA_SynthesizeMouseForUnhandledTouchEvents

All touch events that are not accepted by the application will be translated to left button mouse events instead. This attribute is enabled by default.

Qt.AA_ForceRasterWidgets

Make top-level widgets use pure raster surfaces, and do not support non-native GL-based child widgets.

Qt.AA_UseDesktopOpenGL

Forces the usage of desktop OpenGL (for example, opengl32.dll or libGL.so) on platforms that use dynamic loading of the OpenGL implementation. This attribute must be set before QGuiApplication is constructed. This value was added in Qt 5.3.

Qt.AA_UseOpenGLES

Forces the usage of OpenGL ES 2.0 or higher on platforms that use dynamic loading of the OpenGL implementation. This attribute must be set before QGuiApplication is constructed. This value was added in Qt 5.3.

Qt.AA_UseSoftwareOpenGL

Forces the usage of a software based OpenGL implementation on platforms that use dynamic loading of the OpenGL implementation. This will typically be a patched build of Mesa llvmpipe , providing OpenGL 2.1. The value may have no effect if no such OpenGL implementation is available. The default name of this library is opengl32sw.dll and can be overridden by setting the environment variable QT_OPENGL_DLL. See the platform-specific pages, for instance Qt for Windows, for more information. This attribute must be set before QGuiApplication is constructed. This value was added in Qt 5.4.

Qt.AA_ShareOpenGLContexts

Enables resource sharing between the OpenGL contexts used by classes like QOpenGLWidget and QQuickWidget. This allows sharing OpenGL resources, like textures, between QOpenGLWidget instances that belong to different top-level windows. This attribute must be set before QGuiApplication is constructed. This value was added in Qt 5.4.

Qt.AA_SetPalette

Indicates whether a palette was explicitly set on the QGuiApplication. This value was added in Qt 5.5.

Qt.AA_UseStyleSheetPropagationInWidgetStyles

By default, Qt Style Sheets disable regular QWidget palette and font propagation. When this flag is enabled, font and palette changes propagate as though the user had manually called the corresponding QWidget methods. See The Style Sheet Syntax - Inheritance for more details. This value was added in Qt 5.7.

Qt.AA_DontUseNativeDialogs

All dialogs created while this attribute is set to true won’t use the native dialogs provided by the platform. This value was added in Qt 5.7.

Qt.AA_SynthesizeMouseForUnhandledTabletEvents

All tablet events that are not accepted by the application will be translated to mouse events instead. This attribute is enabled by default. This value was added in Qt 5.7.

Qt.AA_CompressHighFrequencyEvents

Enables compression of certain frequent events. On the X11 windowing system, the default value is true, which means that MouseMove , TouchUpdate , and changes in window size and position will be combined whenever they occur more frequently than the application handles them, so that they don’t accumulate and overwhelm the application later. On Windows 8 and above the default value is also true, but it only applies to touch events. Mouse and window events remain unaffected by this flag. On other platforms, the default is false. (In the future, the compression feature may be implemented across platforms.) You can test the attribute to see whether compression is enabled. If your application needs to handle all events with no compression, you can unset this attribute. Notice that input events from tablet devices will not be compressed. See AA_CompressTabletEvents if you want these to be compressed as well. This value was added in Qt 5.7.

Qt.AA_CompressTabletEvents

Enables compression of input events from tablet devices. Notice that AA_CompressHighFrequencyEvents must be true for events compression to be enabled, and that this flag extends the former to tablet events. Currently supported on the X11 windowing system, Windows 8 and above. The default value is false. This value was added in Qt 5.10.

Qt.AA_DontCheckOpenGLContextThreadAffinity

When making a context current using QOpenGLContext, do not check that the QObject thread affinity of the QOpenGLContext object is the same thread calling makeCurrent(). This value was added in Qt 5.8.

Qt.AA_DisableShaderDiskCache

Disables caching of shader program binaries on disk. By default Qt Quick, QPainter’s OpenGL backend, and any application using QOpenGLShaderProgram with one of its addCacheableShaderFromSource overloads will employ a disk-based program binary cache in either the shared or per-process cache storage location, on systems that support glProgramBinary(). In the unlikely event of this being problematic, set this attribute to disable all disk-based caching of shaders.

Qt.AA_DisableSessionManager

Disables the QSessionManager. By default Qt will connect to a running session manager for a GUI application on supported platforms, use of a session manager may be redundant for system services. This attribute must be set before QGuiApplication is constructed. This value was added in 5.14

Qt.AA_DisableNativeVirtualKeyboard

When this attribute is set, the native on-screen virtual keyboard will not be shown automatically when a text input widget gains focus on a system without a physical keyboard. Currently supported on the Windows platform only. This value was added in 5.15

class ImageConversionFlag#

(inherits enum.Flag) The options marked “(default)” are set if no other values from the list are included (since the defaults are zero):

Color/Mono preference (ignored for QBitmap):

Constant

Description

Qt.AutoColor

(default) - If the image has depth 1 and contains only black and white pixels, the pixmap becomes monochrome.

Qt.ColorOnly

The pixmap is dithered/converted to the native display depth.

Qt.MonoOnly

The pixmap becomes monochrome. If necessary, it is dithered using the chosen dithering algorithm.

Dithering mode preference:

Constant

Description

Qt.DiffuseDither

(default) - A high-quality dither using error diffusion.

Qt.OrderedDither

A faster, ordered dither.

Qt.ThresholdDither

No dithering; closest color is used.

Dithering mode preference for 1-bit alpha masks:

Constant

Description

Qt.ThresholdAlphaDither

(default) - No dithering.

Qt.OrderedAlphaDither

A faster, ordered dither.

Qt.DiffuseAlphaDither

A high-quality dither using error diffusion.

Color matching versus dithering preference:

Constant

Description

Qt.PreferDither

Always dither images when converting to smaller color-spaces.

Qt.AvoidDither

Only dither to indexed formats if the source image uses more different colors than the size of the color table of the destination format.

Qt.AutoDither

(default) - Only dither when down-converting to 1 or 8-bit indexed formats.

Qt.NoOpaqueDetection

Do not check whether the image contains non-opaque pixels. Use this if you know that the image is semi-transparent and you want to avoid the overhead of checking the pixels in the image until a non-opaque pixel is found, or if you want the pixmap to retain an alpha channel for some other reason. If the image has no alpha channel this flag has no effect.

Qt.NoFormatConversion

Don’t do any format conversions on the image. Can be useful when converting a QImage to a QPixmap for a one-time rendering operation for example. Note that a QPixmap not in the preferred format will be much slower as a paint device.

class BGMode#

Background mode:

Constant

Description

Qt.TransparentMode

Qt.OpaqueMode

class Key#

(inherits enum.IntEnum) The key names used by Qt.

Constant

Description

Qt.Key_Escape

Qt.Key_Tab

Qt.Key_Backtab

Qt.Key_Backspace

Qt.Key_Return

Qt.Key_Enter

Typically located on the keypad.

Qt.Key_Insert

Qt.Key_Delete

Qt.Key_Pause

The Pause/Break key (Note: Not related to pausing media)

Qt.Key_Print

Qt.Key_SysReq

Qt.Key_Clear

Corresponds to the Clear key on selected Apple keyboard models. On other systems it is commonly mapped to the numeric keypad key 5, when Num Lock is off.

Qt.Key_Home

Qt.Key_End

Qt.Key_Left

Qt.Key_Up

Qt.Key_Right

Qt.Key_Down

Qt.Key_PageUp

Qt.Key_PageDown

Qt.Key_Shift

Qt.Key_Control

On macOS, this corresponds to the Command keys.

Qt.Key_Meta

On macOS, this corresponds to the Control keys. On Windows keyboards, this key is mapped to the Windows key.

Qt.Key_Alt

Qt.Key_AltGr

On Windows, when the KeyDown event for this key is sent, the Ctrl+Alt modifiers are also set.

Qt.Key_CapsLock

Qt.Key_NumLock

Qt.Key_ScrollLock

Qt.Key_F1

Qt.Key_F2

Qt.Key_F3

Qt.Key_F4

Qt.Key_F5

Qt.Key_F6

Qt.Key_F7

Qt.Key_F8

Qt.Key_F9

Qt.Key_F10

Qt.Key_F11

Qt.Key_F12

Qt.Key_F13

Qt.Key_F14

Qt.Key_F15

Qt.Key_F16

Qt.Key_F17

Qt.Key_F18

Qt.Key_F19

Qt.Key_F20

Qt.Key_F21

Qt.Key_F22

Qt.Key_F23

Qt.Key_F24

Qt.Key_F25

Qt.Key_F26

Qt.Key_F27

Qt.Key_F28

Qt.Key_F29

Qt.Key_F30

Qt.Key_F31

Qt.Key_F32

Qt.Key_F33

Qt.Key_F34

Qt.Key_F35

Qt.Key_Super_L

Qt.Key_Super_R

Qt.Key_Menu

Qt.Key_Hyper_L

Qt.Key_Hyper_R

Qt.Key_Help

Qt.Key_Direction_L

Qt.Key_Direction_R

Qt.Key_Space

Qt.Key_Any

Qt.Key_Exclam

Qt.Key_QuoteDbl

Qt.Key_NumberSign

Qt.Key_Dollar

Qt.Key_Percent

Qt.Key_Ampersand

Qt.Key_Apostrophe

Qt.Key_ParenLeft

Qt.Key_ParenRight

Qt.Key_Asterisk

Qt.Key_Plus

Qt.Key_Comma

Qt.Key_Minus

Qt.Key_Period

Qt.Key_Slash

Qt.Key_0

Qt.Key_1

Qt.Key_2

Qt.Key_3

Qt.Key_4

Qt.Key_5

Qt.Key_6

Qt.Key_7

Qt.Key_8

Qt.Key_9

Qt.Key_Colon

Qt.Key_Semicolon

Qt.Key_Less

Qt.Key_Equal

Qt.Key_Greater

Qt.Key_Question

Qt.Key_At

Qt.Key_A

Qt.Key_B

Qt.Key_C

Qt.Key_D

Qt.Key_E

Qt.Key_F

Qt.Key_G

Qt.Key_H

Qt.Key_I

Qt.Key_J

Qt.Key_K

Qt.Key_L

Qt.Key_M

Qt.Key_N

Qt.Key_O

Qt.Key_P

Qt.Key_Q

Qt.Key_R

Qt.Key_S

Qt.Key_T

Qt.Key_U

Qt.Key_V

Qt.Key_W

Qt.Key_X

Qt.Key_Y

Qt.Key_Z

Qt.Key_BracketLeft

Qt.Key_Backslash

Qt.Key_BracketRight

Qt.Key_AsciiCircum

Qt.Key_Underscore

Qt.Key_QuoteLeft

Qt.Key_BraceLeft

Qt.Key_Bar

Qt.Key_BraceRight

Qt.Key_AsciiTilde

Qt.Key_nobreakspace

Qt.Key_exclamdown

Qt.Key_cent

Qt.Key_sterling

Qt.Key_currency

Qt.Key_yen

Qt.Key_brokenbar

Qt.Key_section

Qt.Key_diaeresis

Qt.Key_copyright

Qt.Key_ordfeminine

Qt.Key_guillemotleft

Qt.Key_notsign

Qt.Key_hyphen

Qt.Key_registered

Qt.Key_macron

Qt.Key_degree

Qt.Key_plusminus

Qt.Key_twosuperior

Qt.Key_threesuperior

Qt.Key_acute

Qt.Key_micro

Qt.Key_mu

Deprecated alias for Key_micro

Qt.Key_paragraph

Qt.Key_periodcentered

Qt.Key_cedilla

Qt.Key_onesuperior

Qt.Key_masculine

Qt.Key_guillemotright

Qt.Key_onequarter

Qt.Key_onehalf

Qt.Key_threequarters

Qt.Key_questiondown

Qt.Key_Agrave

Qt.Key_Aacute

Qt.Key_Acircumflex

Qt.Key_Atilde

Qt.Key_Adiaeresis

Qt.Key_Aring

Qt.Key_AE

Qt.Key_Ccedilla

Qt.Key_Egrave

Qt.Key_Eacute

Qt.Key_Ecircumflex

Qt.Key_Ediaeresis

Qt.Key_Igrave

Qt.Key_Iacute

Qt.Key_Icircumflex

Qt.Key_Idiaeresis

Qt.Key_ETH

Qt.Key_Ntilde

Qt.Key_Ograve

Qt.Key_Oacute

Qt.Key_Ocircumflex

Qt.Key_Otilde

Qt.Key_Odiaeresis

Qt.Key_multiply

Qt.Key_Ooblique

Qt.Key_Ugrave

Qt.Key_Uacute

Qt.Key_Ucircumflex

Qt.Key_Udiaeresis

Qt.Key_Yacute

Qt.Key_THORN

Qt.Key_ssharp

Qt.Key_division

Qt.Key_ydiaeresis

Qt.Key_Multi_key

Qt.Key_Codeinput

Qt.Key_SingleCandidate

Qt.Key_MultipleCandidate

Qt.Key_PreviousCandidate

Qt.Key_Mode_switch

Qt.Key_Kanji

Qt.Key_Muhenkan

Qt.Key_Henkan

Qt.Key_Romaji

Qt.Key_Hiragana

Qt.Key_Katakana

Qt.Key_Hiragana_Katakana

Qt.Key_Zenkaku

Qt.Key_Hankaku

Qt.Key_Zenkaku_Hankaku

Qt.Key_Touroku

Qt.Key_Massyo

Qt.Key_Kana_Lock

Qt.Key_Kana_Shift

Qt.Key_Eisu_Shift

Qt.Key_Eisu_toggle

Qt.Key_Hangul

Qt.Key_Hangul_Start

Qt.Key_Hangul_End

Qt.Key_Hangul_Hanja

Qt.Key_Hangul_Jamo

Qt.Key_Hangul_Romaja

Qt.Key_Hangul_Jeonja

Qt.Key_Hangul_Banja

Qt.Key_Hangul_PreHanja

Qt.Key_Hangul_PostHanja

Qt.Key_Hangul_Special

Qt.Key_Dead_Grave

Qt.Key_Dead_Acute

Qt.Key_Dead_Circumflex

Qt.Key_Dead_Tilde

Qt.Key_Dead_Macron

Qt.Key_Dead_Breve

Qt.Key_Dead_Abovedot

Qt.Key_Dead_Diaeresis

Qt.Key_Dead_Abovering

Qt.Key_Dead_Doubleacute

Qt.Key_Dead_Caron

Qt.Key_Dead_Cedilla

Qt.Key_Dead_Ogonek

Qt.Key_Dead_Iota

Qt.Key_Dead_Voiced_Sound

Qt.Key_Dead_Semivoiced_Sound

Qt.Key_Dead_Belowdot

Qt.Key_Dead_Hook

Qt.Key_Dead_Horn

Qt.Key_Dead_Stroke

Qt.Key_Dead_Abovecomma

Qt.Key_Dead_Abovereversedcomma

Qt.Key_Dead_Doublegrave

Qt.Key_Dead_Belowring

Qt.Key_Dead_Belowmacron

Qt.Key_Dead_Belowcircumflex

Qt.Key_Dead_Belowtilde

Qt.Key_Dead_Belowbreve

Qt.Key_Dead_Belowdiaeresis

Qt.Key_Dead_Invertedbreve

Qt.Key_Dead_Belowcomma

Qt.Key_Dead_Currency

Qt.Key_Dead_a

Qt.Key_Dead_A

Qt.Key_Dead_e

Qt.Key_Dead_E

Qt.Key_Dead_i

Qt.Key_Dead_I

Qt.Key_Dead_o

Qt.Key_Dead_O

Qt.Key_Dead_u

Qt.Key_Dead_U

Qt.Key_Dead_Small_Schwa

Qt.Key_Dead_Capital_Schwa

Qt.Key_Dead_Greek

Qt.Key_Dead_Lowline

Qt.Key_Dead_Aboveverticalline

Qt.Key_Dead_Belowverticalline

Qt.Key_Dead_Longsolidusoverlay

Qt.Key_Back

Qt.Key_Forward

Qt.Key_Stop

Qt.Key_Refresh

Qt.Key_VolumeDown

Qt.Key_VolumeMute

Qt.Key_VolumeUp

Qt.Key_BassBoost

Qt.Key_BassUp

Qt.Key_BassDown

Qt.Key_TrebleUp

Qt.Key_TrebleDown

Qt.Key_MediaPlay

A key setting the state of the media player to play

Qt.Key_MediaStop

A key setting the state of the media player to stop

Qt.Key_MediaPrevious

Qt.Key_MediaNext

Qt.Key_MediaRecord

Qt.Key_MediaPause

A key setting the state of the media player to pause (Note: not the pause/break key)

Qt.Key_MediaTogglePlayPause

A key to toggle the play/pause state in the media player (rather than setting an absolute state)

Qt.Key_HomePage

Qt.Key_Favorites

Qt.Key_Search

Qt.Key_Standby

Qt.Key_OpenUrl

Qt.Key_LaunchMail

Qt.Key_LaunchMedia

Qt.Key_Launch0

Qt.Key_Launch1

Qt.Key_Launch2

Qt.Key_Launch3

Qt.Key_Launch4

Qt.Key_Launch5

Qt.Key_Launch6

Qt.Key_Launch7

Qt.Key_Launch8

Qt.Key_Launch9

Qt.Key_LaunchA

Qt.Key_LaunchB

Qt.Key_LaunchC

Qt.Key_LaunchD

Qt.Key_LaunchE

Qt.Key_LaunchF

Qt.Key_LaunchG

Qt.Key_LaunchH

Qt.Key_MonBrightnessUp

Qt.Key_MonBrightnessDown

Qt.Key_KeyboardLightOnOff

Qt.Key_KeyboardBrightnessUp

Qt.Key_KeyboardBrightnessDown

Qt.Key_PowerOff

Qt.Key_WakeUp

Qt.Key_Eject

Qt.Key_ScreenSaver

Qt.Key_WWW

Qt.Key_Memo

Qt.Key_LightBulb

Qt.Key_Shop

Qt.Key_History

Qt.Key_AddFavorite

Qt.Key_HotLinks

Qt.Key_BrightnessAdjust

Qt.Key_Finance

Qt.Key_Community

Qt.Key_AudioRewind

Qt.Key_BackForward

Qt.Key_ApplicationLeft

Qt.Key_ApplicationRight

Qt.Key_Book

Qt.Key_CD

Qt.Key_Calculator

Qt.Key_ToDoList

Qt.Key_ClearGrab

Qt.Key_Close

Qt.Key_Copy

Qt.Key_Cut

Qt.Key_Display

Qt.Key_DOS

Qt.Key_Documents

Qt.Key_Excel

Qt.Key_Explorer

Qt.Key_Game

Qt.Key_Go

Qt.Key_iTouch

Qt.Key_LogOff

Qt.Key_Market

Qt.Key_Meeting

Qt.Key_MenuKB

Qt.Key_MenuPB

Qt.Key_MySites

Qt.Key_News

Qt.Key_OfficeHome

Qt.Key_Option

Qt.Key_Paste

Qt.Key_Phone

Qt.Key_Calendar

Qt.Key_Reply

Qt.Key_Reload

Qt.Key_RotateWindows

Qt.Key_RotationPB

Qt.Key_RotationKB

Qt.Key_Save

Qt.Key_Send

Qt.Key_Spell

Qt.Key_SplitScreen

Qt.Key_Support

Qt.Key_TaskPane

Qt.Key_Terminal

Qt.Key_Tools

Qt.Key_Travel

Qt.Key_Video

Qt.Key_Word

Qt.Key_Xfer

Qt.Key_ZoomIn

Qt.Key_ZoomOut

Qt.Key_Away

Qt.Key_Messenger

Qt.Key_WebCam

Qt.Key_MailForward

Qt.Key_Pictures

Qt.Key_Music

Qt.Key_Battery

Qt.Key_Bluetooth

Qt.Key_WLAN

Qt.Key_UWB

Qt.Key_AudioForward

Qt.Key_AudioRepeat

Qt.Key_AudioRandomPlay

Qt.Key_Subtitle

Qt.Key_AudioCycleTrack

Qt.Key_Time

Qt.Key_Hibernate

Qt.Key_View

Qt.Key_TopMenu

Qt.Key_PowerDown

Qt.Key_Suspend

Qt.Key_ContrastAdjust

Qt.Key_TouchpadToggle

Qt.Key_TouchpadOn

Qt.Key_TouchpadOff

Qt.Key_MicMute

Qt.Key_Red

Qt.Key_Green

Qt.Key_Yellow

Qt.Key_Blue

Qt.Key_ChannelUp

Qt.Key_ChannelDown

Qt.Key_Guide

Qt.Key_Info

Qt.Key_Settings

Qt.Key_MicVolumeUp

Qt.Key_MicVolumeDown

Qt.Key_New

Qt.Key_Open

Qt.Key_Find

Qt.Key_Undo

Qt.Key_Redo

Qt.Key_MediaLast

Qt.Key_unknown

Qt.Key_Call

A key to answer or initiate a call (see Qt::Key_ToggleCallHangup for a key to toggle current call state)

Qt.Key_Camera

A key to activate the camera shutter. On Windows Runtime, the environment variable QT_QPA_ENABLE_CAMERA_KEYS must be set to receive the event.

Qt.Key_CameraFocus

A key to focus the camera. On Windows Runtime, the environment variable QT_QPA_ENABLE_CAMERA_KEYS must be set to receive the event.

Qt.Key_Context1

Qt.Key_Context2

Qt.Key_Context3

Qt.Key_Context4

Qt.Key_Flip

Qt.Key_Hangup

A key to end an ongoing call (see Qt::Key_ToggleCallHangup for a key to toggle current call state)

Qt.Key_No

Qt.Key_Select

Qt.Key_Yes

Qt.Key_ToggleCallHangup

A key to toggle the current call state (ie. either answer, or hangup) depending on current call state

Qt.Key_VoiceDial

Qt.Key_LastNumberRedial

Qt.Key_Execute

Qt.Key_Printer

Qt.Key_Play

Qt.Key_Sleep

Qt.Key_Zoom

Qt.Key_Exit

Qt.Key_Cancel

See also

key()

class KeyboardModifier#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum describes the modifier keys.

Constant

Description

Qt.NoModifier

No modifier key is pressed.

Qt.ShiftModifier

A Shift key on the keyboard is pressed.

Qt.ControlModifier

A Ctrl key on the keyboard is pressed.

Qt.AltModifier

An Alt key on the keyboard is pressed.

Qt.MetaModifier

A Meta key on the keyboard is pressed.

Qt.KeypadModifier

A keypad button is pressed.

Qt.GroupSwitchModifier

X11 only (unless activated on Windows by a command line argument). A Mode_switch key on the keyboard is pressed.

Note

On macOS, the ControlModifier value corresponds to the Command keys on the keyboard, and the MetaModifier value corresponds to the Control keys. The KeypadModifier value will also be set when an arrow key is pressed as the arrow keys are considered part of the keypad.

Note

On Windows Keyboards, Qt::MetaModifier and Key_Meta are mapped to the Windows key.

class Modifier#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum provides shorter names for the keyboard modifier keys supported by Qt.

Note

On macOS, the CTRL value corresponds to the Command keys on the keyboard, and the META value corresponds to the Control keys.

Constant

Description

Qt.SHIFT

The Shift keys provided on all standard keyboards.

Qt.META

The Meta keys.

Qt.CTRL

The Ctrl keys.

Qt.ALT

The normal Alt keys, but not keys like AltGr.

class ArrowType#

Constant

Description

Qt.NoArrow

Qt.UpArrow

Qt.DownArrow

Qt.LeftArrow

Qt.RightArrow

class PenStyle#

This enum type defines the pen styles that can be drawn using QPainter. The styles are:

qpen-solid1

qpen-dash2

qpen-dot3

Qt::SolidLine

Qt::DashLine

Qt::DotLine

qpen-dashdot4

qpen-dashdotdot5

qpen-custom6

Qt::DashDotLine

Qt::DashDotDotLine

Qt::CustomDashLine

Constant

Description

Qt.NoPen

no line at all. For example, QPainter::drawRect() fills but does not draw any boundary line.

Qt.SolidLine

A plain line.

Qt.DashLine

Dashes separated by a few pixels.

Qt.DotLine

Dots separated by a few pixels.

Qt.DashDotLine

Alternate dots and dashes.

Qt.DashDotDotLine

One dash, two dots, one dash, two dots.

Qt.CustomDashLine

A custom pattern defined using QPainterPathStroker::setDashPattern().

See also

QPen

class PenCapStyle#

This enum type defines the pen cap styles supported by Qt, i.e. the line end caps that can be drawn using QPainter.

qpen-square1

qpen-flat2

qpen-roundcap3

Qt::SquareCap

Qt::FlatCap

Qt::RoundCap

Constant

Description

Qt.FlatCap

a square line end that does not cover the end point of the line.

Qt.SquareCap

a square line end that covers the end point and extends beyond it by half the line width.

Qt.RoundCap

a rounded line end.

See also

QPen

class PenJoinStyle#

This enum type defines the pen join styles supported by Qt, i.e. which joins between two connected lines can be drawn using QPainter.

qpen-bevel1

qpen-miter2

qpen-roundjoin3

Qt::BevelJoin

Qt::MiterJoin

Qt::RoundJoin

Constant

Description

Qt.MiterJoin

The outer edges of the lines are extended to meet at an angle, and this area is filled.

Qt.BevelJoin

The triangular notch between the two lines is filled.

Qt.RoundJoin

A circular arc between the two lines is filled.

Qt.SvgMiterJoin

A miter join corresponding to the definition of a miter join in the SVG 1.2 Tiny specification.

See also

QPen

class BrushStyle#

This enum type defines the brush styles supported by Qt, i.e. the fill pattern of shapes drawn using QPainter.

../../_images/brush-styles.png

Constant

Description

Qt.NoBrush

No brush pattern.

Qt.SolidPattern

Uniform color.

Qt.Dense1Pattern

Extremely dense brush pattern.

Qt.Dense2Pattern

Very dense brush pattern.

Qt.Dense3Pattern

Somewhat dense brush pattern.

Qt.Dense4Pattern

Half dense brush pattern.

Qt.Dense5Pattern

Somewhat sparse brush pattern.

Qt.Dense6Pattern

Very sparse brush pattern.

Qt.Dense7Pattern

Extremely sparse brush pattern.

Qt.HorPattern

Horizontal lines.

Qt.VerPattern

Vertical lines.

Qt.CrossPattern

Crossing horizontal and vertical lines.

Qt.BDiagPattern

Backward diagonal lines.

Qt.FDiagPattern

Forward diagonal lines.

Qt.DiagCrossPattern

Crossing diagonal lines.

Qt.LinearGradientPattern

Linear gradient (set using a dedicated QBrush constructor).

Qt.ConicalGradientPattern

Conical gradient (set using a dedicated QBrush constructor).

Qt.RadialGradientPattern

Radial gradient (set using a dedicated QBrush constructor).

Qt.TexturePattern

Custom pattern (see QBrush::setTexture()).

See also

QBrush

class SizeMode#

This enum is used by QPainter::drawRoundedRect() and QPainterPath::addRoundedRect() functions to specify the radii of rectangle corners with respect to the dimensions of the bounding rectangles specified.

Constant

Description

Qt.AbsoluteSize

Specifies the size using absolute measurements.

Qt.RelativeSize

Specifies the size relative to the bounding rectangle, typically using percentage measurements.

class UIEffect#

This enum describes the available UI effects.

By default, Qt will try to use the platform specific desktop settings for each effect. Use the QApplication::setDesktopSettingsAware() function (passing false as argument) to prevent this, and the QApplication::setEffectEnabled() to enable or disable a particular effect.

Note that all effects are disabled on screens running at less than 16-bit color depth.

Constant

Description

Qt.UI_AnimateMenu

Show animated menus.

Qt.UI_FadeMenu

Show faded menus.

Qt.UI_AnimateCombo

Show animated comboboxes.

Qt.UI_AnimateTooltip

Show tooltip animations.

Qt.UI_FadeTooltip

Show tooltip fading effects.

Qt.UI_AnimateToolBox

Reserved

See also

setDesktopSettingsAware()

class CursorShape#

This enum type defines the various cursors that can be used.

The standard arrow cursor is the default for widgets in a normal state.

Constant

Description

Qt.ArrowCursor

cursor-arrow1 The standard arrow cursor.

Qt.UpArrowCursor

cursor-uparrow2 An arrow pointing upwards toward the top of the screen.

Qt.CrossCursor

cursor-cross3 A crosshair cursor, typically used to help the user accurately select a point on the screen.

Qt.WaitCursor

cursor-wait4 An hourglass or watch cursor, usually shown during operations that prevent the user from interacting with the application.

Qt.IBeamCursor

cursor-ibeam5 A caret or ibeam cursor, indicating that a widget can accept and display text input.

Qt.SizeVerCursor

cursor-sizev6 A cursor used for elements that are used to vertically resize top-level windows.

Qt.SizeHorCursor

cursor-sizeh7 A cursor used for elements that are used to horizontally resize top-level windows.

Qt.SizeBDiagCursor

cursor-sizeb8 A cursor used for elements that are used to diagonally resize top-level windows at their top-right and bottom-left corners.

Qt.SizeFDiagCursor

cursor-sizef9 A cursor used for elements that are used to diagonally resize top-level windows at their top-left and bottom-right corners.

Qt.SizeAllCursor

cursor-sizeall10 A cursor used for elements that are used to resize top-level windows in any direction.

Qt.BlankCursor

A blank/invisible cursor, typically used when the cursor shape needs to be hidden.

Qt.SplitVCursor

cursor-vsplit11 A cursor used for vertical splitters, indicating that a handle can be dragged horizontally to adjust the use of available space.

Qt.SplitHCursor

cursor-hsplit12 A cursor used for horizontal splitters, indicating that a handle can be dragged vertically to adjust the use of available space.

Qt.PointingHandCursor

cursor-hand13 A pointing hand cursor that is typically used for clickable elements such as hyperlinks.

Qt.ForbiddenCursor

cursor-forbidden14 A slashed circle cursor, typically used during drag and drop operations to indicate that dragged content cannot be dropped on particular widgets or inside certain regions.

Qt.OpenHandCursor

cursor-openhand15 A cursor representing an open hand, typically used to indicate that the area under the cursor is the visible part of a canvas that the user can click and drag in order to scroll around.

Qt.ClosedHandCursor

cursor-closedhand16 A cursor representing a closed hand, typically used to indicate that a dragging operation is in progress that involves scrolling.

Qt.WhatsThisCursor

cursor-whatsthis17 An arrow with a question mark, typically used to indicate the presence of What’s This? help for a widget.

Qt.BusyCursor

cursor-busy18 An hourglass or watch cursor, usually shown during operations that allow the user to interact with the application while they are performed in the background.

Qt.DragMoveCursor

A cursor that is usually used when dragging an item.

Qt.DragCopyCursor

A cursor that is usually used when dragging an item to copy it.

Qt.DragLinkCursor

A cursor that is usually used when dragging an item to make a link to it.

Qt.BitmapCursor

class TextFormat#

This enum is used in widgets that can display both plain text and rich text, for example QLabel. It is used for deciding whether a text string should be interpreted as one or the other. This is normally done by passing one of the enum values to a QTextEdit::setTextFormat() function.

Constant

Description

Qt.PlainText

The text string is interpreted as a plain text string.

Qt.RichText

The text string is interpreted as a rich text string. See Supported HTML Subset for the definition of rich text.

Qt.AutoText

The text string is interpreted as for Qt::RichText if Qt::mightBeRichText() returns true, otherwise as Qt::PlainText.

Qt.MarkdownText

The text string is interpreted as Markdown-formatted text. This enum value was added in Qt 5.14.

class AspectRatioMode#

This enum type defines what happens to the aspect ratio when scaling an rectangle.

../../_images/qimage-scaling.png

Constant

Description

Qt.IgnoreAspectRatio

The size is scaled freely. The aspect ratio is not preserved.

Qt.KeepAspectRatio

The size is scaled to a rectangle as large as possible inside a given rectangle, preserving the aspect ratio.

Qt.KeepAspectRatioByExpanding

The size is scaled to a rectangle as small as possible outside a given rectangle, preserving the aspect ratio.

See also

scale() scaled()

class DockWidgetArea#

(inherits enum.Flag) Represents the areas a QDockWidget can be plugged to.

Note

A floating dock widget with tabs can be docked anywhere.

Constant

Description

Qt.LeftDockWidgetArea

The left dock area of a QMainWindow.

Qt.RightDockWidgetArea

The right dock area of a QMainWindow.

Qt.TopDockWidgetArea

The top dock area of a QMainWindow.

Qt.BottomDockWidgetArea

The bottom dock area of a QMainWindow.

Qt.AllDockWidgetAreas

All dock widget areas (default).

Qt.NoDockWidgetArea

No dock widget areas.

See also

isAreaAllowed

class DockWidgetAreaSizes#
class ToolBarArea#

Constant

Description

Qt.LeftToolBarArea

Qt.RightToolBarArea

Qt.TopToolBarArea

Qt.BottomToolBarArea

Qt.AllToolBarAreas

Qt.NoToolBarArea

class ToolBarAreaSizes#
class DateFormat#

Constant

Description

Qt.TextDate

The default Qt format, which includes the day and month name, the day number in the month, and the year in full. The day and month names will be short names in English (C locale). This effectively uses, for a date, format ddd MMM d yyyy, for a time HH:mm:ss and combines these as ddd MMM d HH:mm:ss yyyy for a date-time, with an optional zone-offset suffix, where relevant. When reading from a string, a fractional part is also recognized on the seconds of a time part, as HH:mm:ss.zzz, and some minor variants on the format may be recognized, for compatibility with earlier versions of Qt and with changes to the format planned for the future. In particular, the zone-offset suffix presently uses GMT[±tzoff] with a tzoff in HH[[:]mm] format (two-digit hour and optional two-digit minutes, with optional colon separator); this shall change to use UTC in place of GMT in a future release of Qt, so the planned UTC format is recognized.

Qt.ISODateWithMs

ISO 8601 extended format: uses yyyy-MM-dd for dates, HH:mm:ss.zzz for times or yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.zzz (e.g. 2017-07-24T15:46:29.739) for combined dates and times, optionally with a time-zone suffix (Z for UTC otherwise an offset as ±HH:mm) where appropriate. When parsed, a single space, ' ', may be used in place of the 'T' separator between date and time; no other spacing characters are permitted. This format also accepts HH:mm and plain HH formats for the time part, either of which may include a fractional part, HH:mm.zzz or HH.zzz, applied to the last field present (hour or minute).

Qt.ISODate

ISO 8601 extended format, as for ISODateWithMs, but omitting the milliseconds (.zzz) part when converting to a string. There is no difference when reading from a string: if a fractional part is present on the last time field, either format will accept it.

Qt.RFC2822Date

RFC 2822, RFC 850 and RFC 1036 format: when converting dates to string form, format dd MMM yyyy is used, for times the format is HH:mm:ss. For combined date and time, these are combined as dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss ±tzoff (omitting the optional leading day of the week from the first format recognized). When reading from a string either [ddd,] dd MMM yyyy [HH:mm[:ss]][ ±tzoff] or ddd MMM dd[ HH:mm:ss] yyyy[ ±tzoff] will be recognized for combined dates and times, where tzoff is a timezone offset in HHmm format. Arbitrary spacing may appear before or after the text and any non-empty spacing may replace the spaces in this format. For dates and times separately, the same formats are matched and the unwanted parts are ignored. In particular, note that a time is not recognized without an accompanying date.

Note

For ISODate formats, each y, M and d represents a single digit of the year, month, and day used to specify the date. Each H, m, and s represents a single digit of the hour (up to 24), minute and second used to specify the time. An hour of 24, with zero for all other time fields, is understood as the start of the next day. A .zzz stands for a fractional part suffix on the preceding field, which may be separated from that field either by a comma ',' or the dot '.' shown. Precision beyond milliseconds is accepted but discarded, rounding to the nearest representable millisecond. The presence of a literal T character is used to separate the date and time when both are specified. For the TextDate and RFC2822Date formats, ddd stands for the first three letters of the name of the day of the week and MMM stands for the first three letters of the month name. The names of days and months are always in English (C locale) regardless of user preferences or system settings. The other format characters have the same meaning as for the ISODate format, except that 24 is not accepted as an hour. Parts of a format enclosed in square brackets [...] are optional; the square brackets do not form part of the format. The plus-or-minus character '±' here stands for either sign character, '-' for minus or '+' for plus.

Note

Zone offsets are measured positive to the east of Greenwich, negative to the west, as is usual for UTC-based offset notations (conflicting with some GMT-based zones-names, such as Etc/GMT+3, which use the opposite convention).

class TimeSpec#

Constant

Description

Qt.LocalTime

Local time, controlled by a system time-zone setting.

Qt.UTC

Coordinated Universal Time.

Qt.OffsetFromUTC

An offset in seconds from Coordinated Universal Time.

Qt.TimeZone

A named time zone.

Both LocalTime and TimeZone will take care of transitions, such as the start and end of daylight-saving time. UTC is the standard time relative to which time-zones are usually specified: Greenwich Mean Time has zero offset from it. Neither UTC nor OffsetFromUTC has any transitions.

When specifying a datetime using OffsetFromUTC, the offset from UTC must also be supplied (it is measured in seconds). To specify a datetime using TimeZone, a QTimeZone must be supplied. From Qt 6.5, a QTimeZone can now package a timespec with, where needed, an offset as a lightweight time description, so that passing a QTimeZone now provides a uniform way to use datetime APIs, saving the need to call them differently for different timespecs.

Note

After a change to the system time-zone setting, the behavior of LocalTime-based QDateTime objects created before the change is undefined: QDateTime may have cached data that the change invalidates. (This is not triggered by transitions of the system time-zone.) In long-running processes, updates to the system’s time-zone data (e.g. when politicians change the rules for a zone) may likewise lead to conflicts between the updated time-zone information and data cached by QDateTime objects created before the update, using either LocalTime or TimeZone.

See also

QTimeZone QDateTime

class DayOfWeek#

Constant

Description

Qt.Monday

Qt.Tuesday

Qt.Wednesday

Qt.Thursday

Qt.Friday

Qt.Saturday

Qt.Sunday

class ScrollBarPolicy#

This enum type describes the various modes of QAbstractScrollArea’s scroll bars.

Constant

Description

Qt.ScrollBarAsNeeded

QAbstractScrollArea shows a scroll bar when the content is too large to fit and not otherwise. This is the default.

Qt.ScrollBarAlwaysOff

QAbstractScrollArea never shows a scroll bar.

Qt.ScrollBarAlwaysOn

QAbstractScrollArea always shows a scroll bar. This property is ignored on systems with transient scroll bars (e.g., on Mac from version 10.7).

(The modes for the horizontal and vertical scroll bars are independent.)

class CaseSensitivity#

Constant

Description

Qt.CaseInsensitive

Qt.CaseSensitive

class Corner#

This enum type specifies a corner in a rectangle:

Constant

Description

Qt.TopLeftCorner

The top-left corner of the rectangle.

Qt.TopRightCorner

The top-right corner of the rectangle.

Qt.BottomLeftCorner

The bottom-left corner of the rectangle.

Qt.BottomRightCorner

The bottom-right corner of the rectangle.

class Edge#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum type specifies an edge in a rectangle:

Constant

Description

Qt.TopEdge

The top edge of the rectangle.

Qt.LeftEdge

The left edge of the rectangle.

Qt.RightEdge

The right edge of the rectangle.

Qt.BottomEdge

The bottom edge of the rectangle.

class ConnectionType#

This enum describes the types of connection that can be used between signals and slots. In particular, it determines whether a particular signal is delivered to a slot immediately or queued for delivery at a later time.

Constant

Description

Qt.AutoConnection

(Default) If the receiver lives in the thread that emits the signal, Qt::DirectConnection is used. Otherwise, Qt::QueuedConnection is used. The connection type is determined when the signal is emitted.

Qt.DirectConnection

The slot is invoked immediately when the signal is emitted. The slot is executed in the signalling thread.

Qt.QueuedConnection

The slot is invoked when control returns to the event loop of the receiver’s thread. The slot is executed in the receiver’s thread.

Qt.BlockingQueuedConnection

Same as Qt::QueuedConnection, except that the signalling thread blocks until the slot returns. This connection must not be used if the receiver lives in the signalling thread, or else the application will deadlock.

Qt.UniqueConnection

This is a flag that can be combined with any one of the above connection types, using a bitwise OR. When Qt::UniqueConnection is set, connect() will fail if the connection already exists (i.e. if the same signal is already connected to the same slot for the same pair of objects).

Qt.SingleShotConnection

This is a flag that can be combined with any one of the above connection types, using a bitwise OR. When Qt::SingleShotConnection is set, the slot is going to be called only once; the connection will be automatically broken when the signal is emitted. This flag was introduced in Qt 6.0.

With queued connections, the parameters must be of types that are known to Qt’s meta-object system, because Qt needs to copy the arguments to store them in an event behind the scenes. If you try to use a queued connection and get the error message:

QObject::connect: Cannot queue arguments of type 'MyType'

Call qRegisterMetaType() to register the data type before you establish the connection.

When using signals and slots with multiple threads, see Signals and Slots Across Threads.

See also

connect() qRegisterMetaType() Q_DECLARE_METATYPE()

class ShortcutContext#

For a Shortcut event to occur, the shortcut’s key sequence must be entered by the user in a context where the shortcut is active. The possible contexts are these:

Constant

Description

Qt.WidgetShortcut

The shortcut is active when its parent widget has focus.

Qt.WidgetWithChildrenShortcut

The shortcut is active when its parent widget, or any of its children has focus. Children which are top-level widgets, except pop-ups, are not affected by this shortcut context.

Qt.WindowShortcut

The shortcut is active when its parent widget is a logical subwidget of the active top-level window.

Qt.ApplicationShortcut

The shortcut is active when one of the applications windows are active.

class FillRule#

Specifies which method should be used to fill the paths and polygons.

Constant

Description

Qt.OddEvenFill

Specifies that the region is filled using the odd even fill rule. With this rule, we determine whether a point is inside the shape by using the following method. Draw a horizontal line from the point to a location outside the shape, and count the number of intersections. If the number of intersections is an odd number, the point is inside the shape. This mode is the default.

Qt.WindingFill

Specifies that the region is filled using the non zero winding rule. With this rule, we determine whether a point is inside the shape by using the following method. Draw a horizontal line from the point to a location outside the shape. Determine whether the direction of the line at each intersection point is up or down. The winding number is determined by summing the direction of each intersection. If the number is non zero, the point is inside the shape. This fill mode can also in most cases be considered as the intersection of closed shapes.

class MaskMode#

This enum specifies the behavior of the QPixmap::createMaskFromColor() and QImage::createMaskFromColor() functions.

Constant

Description

Qt.MaskInColor

Creates a mask where all pixels matching the given color are opaque.

Qt.MaskOutColor

Creates a mask where all pixels matching the given color are transparent.

class ClipOperation#

Constant

Description

Qt.NoClip

This operation turns clipping off.

Qt.ReplaceClip

Replaces the current clip path/rect/region with the one supplied in the function call.

Qt.IntersectClip

Intersects the current clip path/rect/region with the one supplied in the function call.

class ItemSelectionMode#

This enum is used in QGraphicsItem, QGraphicsScene and QGraphicsView to specify how items are selected, or how to determine if shapes and items collide.

Constant

Description

Qt.ContainsItemShape

The output list contains only items whose shape is fully contained inside the selection area. Items that intersect with the area’s outline are not included.

Qt.IntersectsItemShape

The output list contains both items whose shape is fully contained inside the selection area, and items that intersect with the area’s outline. This is a common mode for rubber band selection.

Qt.ContainsItemBoundingRect

The output list contains only items whose bounding rectangle is fully contained inside the selection area. Items that intersect with the area’s outline are not included.

Qt.IntersectsItemBoundingRect

The output list contains both items whose bounding rectangle is fully contained inside the selection area, and items that intersect with the area’s outline. This method is commonly used for determining areas that need redrawing.

See also

collidesWithPath()

class ItemSelectionOperation#

This enum is used in QGraphicsScene to specify what to do with currently selected items when setting a selection area.

Constant

Description

Qt.ReplaceSelection

The currently selected items are replaced by items in the selection area.

Qt.AddToSelection

The items in the selection area are added to the currently selected items.

class TransformationMode#

This enum type defines whether image transformations (e.g., scaling) should be smooth or not.

Constant

Description

Qt.FastTransformation

The transformation is performed quickly, with no smoothing.

Qt.SmoothTransformation

The resulting image is transformed using bilinear filtering.

See also

scaled()

class Axis#

This enum type defines three values to represent the three axes in the cartesian coordinate system.

Constant

Description

Qt.XAxis

The X axis.

Qt.YAxis

The Y axis.

Qt.ZAxis

The Z axis.

See also

rotateRadians()

class FocusReason#

This enum specifies why the focus changed. It will be passed through QWidget::setFocus and can be retrieved in the QFocusEvent sent to the widget upon focus change.

Constant

Description

Qt.MouseFocusReason

A mouse action occurred.

Qt.TabFocusReason

The Tab key was pressed.

Qt.BacktabFocusReason

A Backtab occurred. The input for this may include the Shift or Control keys; e.g. Shift+Tab.

Qt.ActiveWindowFocusReason

The window system made this window either active or inactive.

Qt.PopupFocusReason

The application opened/closed a pop-up that grabbed/released the keyboard focus.

Qt.ShortcutFocusReason

The user typed a label’s buddy shortcut

Qt.MenuBarFocusReason

The menu bar took focus.

Qt.OtherFocusReason

Another reason, usually application-specific.

See also

Keyboard Focus in Widgets

class ContextMenuPolicy#

This enum type defines the various policies a widget can have with respect to showing a context menu.

Constant

Description

Qt.NoContextMenu

the widget does not feature a context menu, context menu handling is deferred to the widget’s parent.

Qt.PreventContextMenu

the widget does not feature a context menu, and in contrast to NoContextMenu, the handling is not deferred to the widget’s parent. This means that all right mouse button events are guaranteed to be delivered to the widget itself through QWidget::mousePressEvent(), and QWidget::mouseReleaseEvent().

Qt.DefaultContextMenu

the widget’s QWidget::contextMenuEvent() handler is called.

Qt.ActionsContextMenu

the widget displays its QWidget::actions() as context menu.

Qt.CustomContextMenu

the widget emits the QWidget::customContextMenuRequested() signal.

class InputMethodQuery#

Constant

Description

Qt.ImEnabled

(inherits enum.Flag) The widget accepts input method input.

Qt.ImCursorRectangle

The rectangle covering the area of the input cursor in widget coordinates.

Qt.ImFont

The currently used font for text input.

Qt.ImCursorPosition

The logical position of the cursor within the text surrounding the input area (see ImSurroundingText). The position does not incorporate the offset of the cursor within the preedit area, as controlled by QInputMethodEvent::Cursor.

Qt.ImSurroundingText

The plain text around the input area, for example the current paragraph.

Qt.ImCurrentSelection

The currently selected text.

Qt.ImMaximumTextLength

The maximum number of characters that the widget can hold. If there is no limit, QVariant() is returned.

Qt.ImAnchorPosition

The position of the selection anchor. This may be less or greater than ImCursorPosition, depending on which side of selection the cursor is. If there is no selection, it returns the same as ImCursorPosition.

Qt.ImHints

The hints for input method on expected input. (See InputMethodHints )

Qt.ImPreferredLanguage

The preferred input language.

Qt.ImPlatformData

Platform specific data for input method.

Qt.ImAbsolutePosition

The logical position of the cursor within the entire document. The position does not incorporate the offset of the cursor within the preedit area, as controlled by QInputMethodEvent::Cursor.

Qt.ImTextBeforeCursor

The plain text before the cursor. The widget can decide how much text to return, but must not return an empty string unless the cursor is at the start of the document.

Qt.ImTextAfterCursor

The plain text after the cursor. The widget can decide how much text to return, but must not return an empty string unless the cursor is at the end of the document.

Qt.ImEnterKeyType

The Enter key type.

Qt.ImAnchorRectangle

The bounding rectangle of the selection anchor. This value was added in Qt 5.7.

Qt.ImInputItemClipRectangle

The actual exposed input item rectangle. Parts of the input item might be clipped. This value will take clipping into consideration and return the actual painted item rectangle. The rectangle is in widget coordinates.

Qt.ImReadOnly

The widget is read only. This value was added in Qt 6.2.

Masks:

Constant

Description

Qt.ImQueryInput

Commonly changed properties on input.

Qt.ImQueryAll

Query for all input method properties.

class InputMethodHint#

Constant

Description

Qt.ImhNone

(inherits enum.Flag) No hints.

Flags that alter the behavior:

Constant

Description

Qt.ImhHiddenText

The input method should not show the characters while typing. This is automatically set when setting QLineEdit::echoMode to Password. Note that setting ImhHiddenText does not change the echo mode.

Qt.ImhSensitiveData

Typed text should not be stored by the active input method in any persistent storage like predictive user dictionary.

Qt.ImhNoAutoUppercase

The input method should not try to automatically switch to upper case when a sentence ends.

Qt.ImhPreferNumbers

Numbers are preferred (but not required).

Qt.ImhPreferUppercase

Upper case letters are preferred (but not required).

Qt.ImhPreferLowercase

Lower case letters are preferred (but not required).

Qt.ImhNoPredictiveText

Do not use predictive text (i.e. dictionary lookup) while typing.

Qt.ImhDate

The text editor functions as a date field.

Qt.ImhTime

The text editor functions as a time field.

Qt.ImhPreferLatin

Latin characters are preferred (but not required).

Qt.ImhMultiLine

Multiple lines can be entered into the text field.

Qt.ImhNoEditMenu

Do not use built-in edit menu. This flag was introduced in Qt 5.11.

Qt.ImhNoTextHandles

Do not use built-in text cursor and selection handles. This flag was introduced in Qt 5.11.

Flags that restrict input (exclusive flags):

Constant

Description

Qt.ImhDigitsOnly

Only digits are allowed.

Qt.ImhFormattedNumbersOnly

Only number input is allowed. This includes decimal point and minus sign.

Qt.ImhUppercaseOnly

Only upper case letter input is allowed.

Qt.ImhLowercaseOnly

Only lower case letter input is allowed.

Qt.ImhDialableCharactersOnly

Only characters suitable for phone dialing are allowed.

Qt.ImhEmailCharactersOnly

Only characters suitable for email addresses are allowed.

Qt.ImhUrlCharactersOnly

Only characters suitable for URLs are allowed.

Qt.ImhLatinOnly

Only latin based input is allowed.

Masks:

Constant

Description

Qt.ImhExclusiveInputMask

This mask yields nonzero if any of the exclusive flags are used.

Note

If several exclusive flags are OR-ed together, the resulting character set will consist of the union of the specified sets. For instance specifying ImhNumbersOnly and ImhUppercaseOnly would yield a set consisting of numbers and uppercase letters.

New in version 4.6.

class EnterKeyType#

This can be used to alter the appearance of the Return key on an on-screen keyboard.

Note

Not all of these values are supported on all platforms. For unsupported values the default key will be used instead.

Constant

Description

Qt.EnterKeyDefault

The default Enter key. This can either be a button closing the keyboard, or a Return button causing a new line in case of a multi-line input field.

Qt.EnterKeyReturn

Show a Return button that inserts a new line. The keyboard will not close when this button is pressed.

Qt.EnterKeyDone

Show a “Done” button. The keyboard will close when this button is pressed.

Qt.EnterKeyGo

Show a “Go” button. Typically used in an address bar when entering a URL; the keyboard will close when this button is pressed.

Qt.EnterKeySend

Show a “Send” button. The keyboard will close when this button is pressed.

Qt.EnterKeySearch

Show a “Search” button. The keyboard will close when this button is pressed.

Qt.EnterKeyNext

Show a “Next” button. Typically used in a form to allow navigating to the next input field; the keyboard will not close when this button is pressed.

Qt.EnterKeyPrevious

Show a “Previous” button. The keyboard will not close when this button is pressed.

class ToolButtonStyle#

The style of the tool button, describing how the button’s text and icon should be displayed.

Constant

Description

Qt.ToolButtonIconOnly

Only display the icon.

Qt.ToolButtonTextOnly

Only display the text.

Qt.ToolButtonTextBesideIcon

The text appears beside the icon.

Qt.ToolButtonTextUnderIcon

The text appears under the icon.

Qt.ToolButtonFollowStyle

Follow the style.

class LayoutDirection#

Specifies the direction of Qt’s layouts and text handling.

Constant

Description

Qt.LeftToRight

Left-to-right layout.

Qt.RightToLeft

Right-to-left layout.

Qt.LayoutDirectionAuto

Automatic layout.

Right-to-left layouts are necessary for certain languages, notably Arabic and Hebrew.

LayoutDirectionAuto serves two purposes. When used in conjunction with widgets and layouts, it will imply to use the layout direction set on the parent widget or QApplication. This has the same effect as QWidget::unsetLayoutDirection().

When LayoutDirectionAuto is used in conjunction with text layouting, it will imply that the text directionality is determined from the content of the string to be layouted.

See also

isRightToLeft()

class AnchorPoint#

Specifies a side of a layout item that can be anchored. This is used by QGraphicsAnchorLayout.

Constant

Description

Qt.AnchorLeft

The left side of a layout item.

Qt.AnchorHorizontalCenter

A “virtual” side that is centered between the left and the right side of a layout item.

Qt.AnchorRight

The right side of a layout item.

Qt.AnchorTop

The top side of a layout item.

Qt.AnchorVerticalCenter

A “virtual” side that is centered between the top and the bottom side of a layout item.

Qt.AnchorBottom

The bottom side of a layout item.

New in version 4.6.

class FindChildOption#

Constant

Description

Qt.FindDirectChildrenOnly

(inherits enum.Flag) Looks only at the direct children of the object.

Qt.FindChildrenRecursively

Looks at all children of the object (recursive search).

class DropAction#

Constant

Description

Qt.CopyAction

(inherits enum.Flag) Copy the data to the target.

Qt.MoveAction

Move the data from the source to the target.

Qt.LinkAction

Create a link from the source to the target.

Qt.ActionMask

Qt.IgnoreAction

Ignore the action (do nothing with the data).

Qt.TargetMoveAction

On Windows, this value is used when the ownership of the D&D data should be taken over by the target application, i.e., the source application should not delete the data. On X11 this value is used to do a move. TargetMoveAction is not used on the Mac.

class CheckState#

This enum describes the state of checkable items, controls, and widgets.

Constant

Description

Qt.Unchecked

The item is unchecked.

Qt.PartiallyChecked

The item is partially checked. Items in hierarchical models may be partially checked if some, but not all, of their children are checked.

Qt.Checked

The item is checked.

See also

ItemFlags ItemDataRole

class ItemDataRole#

(inherits enum.IntEnum) Each item in the model has a set of data elements associated with it, each with its own role. The roles are used by the view to indicate to the model which type of data it needs. Custom models should return data in these types.

The general purpose roles (and the associated types) are:

Constant

Description

Qt.DisplayRole

The key data to be rendered in the form of text. ( QString )

Qt.DecorationRole

The data to be rendered as a decoration in the form of an icon. (QColor, QIcon or QPixmap)

Qt.EditRole

The data in a form suitable for editing in an editor. ( QString )

Qt.ToolTipRole

The data displayed in the item’s tooltip. ( QString )

Qt.StatusTipRole

The data displayed in the status bar. ( QString )

Qt.WhatsThisRole

The data displayed for the item in “What’s This?” mode. ( QString )

Qt.SizeHintRole

The size hint for the item that will be supplied to views. ( QSize )

Roles describing appearance and meta data (with associated types):

Constant

Description

Qt.FontRole

The font used for items rendered with the default delegate. (QFont)

Qt.TextAlignmentRole

The alignment of the text for items rendered with the default delegate. ( Alignment )

Qt.BackgroundRole

The background brush used for items rendered with the default delegate. (QBrush)

Qt.ForegroundRole

The foreground brush (text color, typically) used for items rendered with the default delegate. (QBrush)

Qt.CheckStateRole

This role is used to obtain the checked state of an item. ( CheckState )

Qt.InitialSortOrderRole

This role is used to obtain the initial sort order of a header view section. ( SortOrder ).

Accessibility roles (with associated types):

Constant

Description

Qt.AccessibleTextRole

The text to be used by accessibility extensions and plugins, such as screen readers. ( QString )

Qt.AccessibleDescriptionRole

A description of the item for accessibility purposes. ( QString )

User roles:

Constant

Description

Qt.UserRole

The first role that can be used for application-specific purposes.

For user roles, it is up to the developer to decide which types to use and ensure that components use the correct types when accessing and setting data.

class ItemFlag#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum describes the properties of an item:

Constant

Description

Qt.NoItemFlags

It does not have any properties set.

Qt.ItemIsSelectable

It can be selected.

Qt.ItemIsEditable

It can be edited.

Qt.ItemIsDragEnabled

It can be dragged.

Qt.ItemIsDropEnabled

It can be used as a drop target.

Qt.ItemIsUserCheckable

It can be checked or unchecked by the user.

Qt.ItemIsEnabled

The user can interact with the item.

Qt.ItemIsAutoTristate

The item’s state depends on the state of its children. This enables automatic management of the state of parent items in QTreeWidget (checked if all children are checked, unchecked if all children are unchecked, or partially checked if only some children are checked).

Qt.ItemNeverHasChildren

The item never has child items. This is used for optimization purposes only.

Qt.ItemIsUserTristate

The user can cycle through three separate states. This value was added in Qt 5.5.

Note that checkable items need to be given both a suitable set of flags and an initial state, indicating whether the item is checked or not. This is handled automatically for model/view components, but needs to be explicitly set for instances of QListWidgetItem, QTableWidgetItem, and QTreeWidgetItem.

Note that it is undefined behavior to reimplement hasChildren to return true for an index if that index has the Qt::ItemNeverHasChildren flag set.

class MatchFlag#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum describes the type of matches that can be used when searching for items in a model.

Constant

Description

Qt.MatchExactly

Performs QVariant -based matching.

Qt.MatchFixedString

Performs string-based matching. String-based comparisons are case-insensitive unless the MatchCaseSensitive flag is also specified.

Qt.MatchContains

The search term is contained in the item.

Qt.MatchStartsWith

The search term matches the start of the item.

Qt.MatchEndsWith

The search term matches the end of the item.

Qt.MatchCaseSensitive

The search is case sensitive.

Qt.MatchRegularExpression

Performs string-based matching using a regular expression as the search term. Uses QRegularExpression . When using this flag, a QRegularExpression object can be passed as parameter and will directly be used to perform the search. The case sensitivity flag will be ignored as the QRegularExpression object is expected to be fully configured. This enum value was added in Qt 5.15.

Qt.MatchWildcard

Performs string-based matching using a string with wildcards as the search term.

Qt.MatchWrap

Perform a search that wraps around, so that when the search reaches the last item in the model, it begins again at the first item and continues until all items have been examined.

Qt.MatchRecursive

Searches the entire hierarchy.

Note

Qt::MatchExactly, Qt::MatchContains, Qt::MatchStartsWith, Qt::MatchEndsWith, Qt::MatchRegularExpression, Qt::MatchWildcard, and Qt::MatchFixedString are mutually exclusive. The behavior achieved by setting several of them in a Qt::MatchFlags argument is undefined.

See also

compare() QRegularExpression

class WindowModality#

This enum specifies the behavior of a modal window. A modal window is one that blocks input to other windows. Note that windows that are children of a modal window are not blocked.

The values are:

Constant

Description

Qt.NonModal

The window is not modal and does not block input to other windows.

Qt.WindowModal

The window is modal to a single window hierarchy and blocks input to its parent window, all grandparent windows, and all siblings of its parent and grandparent windows.

Qt.ApplicationModal

The window is modal to the application and blocks input to all windows.

See also

windowModalityQDialog

class TextInteractionFlag#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum specifies how a text displaying widget reacts to user input.

Constant

Description

Qt.NoTextInteraction

No interaction with the text is possible.

Qt.TextSelectableByMouse

Text can be selected with the mouse and copied to the clipboard using a context menu or standard keyboard shortcuts.

Qt.TextSelectableByKeyboard

Text can be selected with the cursor keys on the keyboard. A text cursor is shown.

Qt.LinksAccessibleByMouse

Links can be highlighted and activated with the mouse.

Qt.LinksAccessibleByKeyboard

Links can be focused using tab and activated with enter.

Qt.TextEditable

The text is fully editable.

Qt.TextEditorInteraction

The default for a text editor.

Qt.TextBrowserInteraction

The default for QTextBrowser.

class EventPriority#

Warning

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This enum can be used to specify event priorities.

Constant

Description

Qt.HighEventPriority

Events with this priority are sent before events with NormalEventPriority or LowEventPriority.

Qt.NormalEventPriority

Events with this priority are sent after events with HighEventPriority, but before events with LowEventPriority.

Qt.LowEventPriority

Events with this priority are sent after events with HighEventPriority or NormalEventPriority.

Note that these values are provided purely for convenience, since event priorities can be any value between INT_MAX and INT_MIN, inclusive. For example, you can define custom priorities as being relative to each other:

enum CustomEventPriority

    # An important event
    ImportantEventPriority = Qt.HighEventPriority,
    # A more important event
    MoreImportantEventPriority = ImportantEventPriority + 1,
    # A critical event
    CriticalEventPriority = 100 * MoreImportantEventPriority,
    # Not that important
    StatusEventPriority = Qt.LowEventPriority,
    # These are less important than Status events
    IdleProcessingDoneEventPriority = StatusEventPriority - 1

See also

postEvent()

class SizeHint#

This enum is used by QGraphicsLayoutItem::sizeHint()

Constant

Description

Qt.MinimumSize

is used to specify the minimum size of a graphics layout item.

Qt.PreferredSize

is used to specify the preferred size of a graphics layout item.

Qt.MaximumSize

is used to specify the maximum size of a graphics layout item.

Qt.MinimumDescent

is used to specify the minimum descent of a text string in a graphics layout item.

See also

sizeHint()

class WindowFrameSection#

This enum is used to describe parts of a window frame. It is returned by QGraphicsWidget::windowFrameSectionAt() to describe what section of the window frame is under the mouse.

Constant

Description

Qt.NoSection

Qt.LeftSection

Qt.TopLeftSection

Qt.TopSection

Qt.TopRightSection

Qt.RightSection

Qt.BottomRightSection

Qt.BottomSection

Qt.BottomLeftSection

Qt.TitleBarArea

See also

windowFrameSectionAt()

class CoordinateSystem#

This enum specifies the coordinate system.

Constant

Description

Qt.DeviceCoordinates

Coordinates are relative to the top-left corner of the object’s paint device.

Qt.LogicalCoordinates

Coordinates are relative to the top-left corner of the object.

New in version 4.6.

class TouchPointState#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum represents the state of a touch point at the time a QTouchEvent occurred.

Constant

Description

Qt.TouchPointUnknownState

The state of the touch point is not known.

Qt.TouchPointPressed

The touch point is now pressed.

Qt.TouchPointMoved

The touch point moved.

Qt.TouchPointStationary

The touch point did not move.

Qt.TouchPointReleased

The touch point was released.

New in version 4.6.

class GestureState#

This enum type describes the state of a gesture.

Constant

Description

Qt.NoGesture

No gesture has been detected.

Qt.GestureStarted

A continuous gesture has started.

Qt.GestureUpdated

A gesture continues.

Qt.GestureFinished

A gesture has finished.

Qt.GestureCanceled

A gesture was canceled.

See also

QGesture

New in version 4.6.

class GestureType#

(inherits enum.IntEnum) This enum type describes the standard gestures.

Constant

Description

Qt.TapGesture

A Tap gesture.

Qt.TapAndHoldGesture

A Tap-And-Hold (Long-Tap) gesture.

Qt.PanGesture

A Pan gesture.

Qt.PinchGesture

A Pinch gesture.

Qt.SwipeGesture

A Swipe gesture.

Qt.CustomGesture

A flag that can be used to test if the gesture is a user-defined gesture ID.

User-defined gestures are registered with the QGestureRecognizer::registerRecognizer() function which generates a custom gesture ID with the Qt::CustomGesture flag set.

See also

grabGesture()

New in version 4.6.

class GestureFlag#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum type describes additional flags that can be used when subscribing to a gesture.

Constant

Description

Qt.DontStartGestureOnChildren

By default gestures can start on the widget or over any of its children. Use this flag to disable this and allow a gesture to start on the widget only.

Qt.ReceivePartialGestures

Allows any ignored gesture events to be propagated to parent widgets which have specified this hint. By default only gestures that are in the GestureStarted state are propagated and the widget always gets the full gesture sequence starting with a gesture in the GestureStarted state and ending with a gesture in the GestureFinished or GestureCanceled states.

Qt.IgnoredGesturesPropagateToParent

Allows fine-tuning of gesture event propagation. By setting the flag when grabbing a gesture all ignored partial gestures will propagate to their parent items.

See also

grabGesture()

New in version 4.6.

class NativeGestureType#

This enum returns the gesture type.

Constant

Description

Qt.BeginNativeGesture

Sent before gesture event stream.

Qt.EndNativeGesture

Sent after gesture event stream.

Qt.PanNativeGesture

Specifies the displacement delta in pixels.

Qt.ZoomNativeGesture

Specifies the magnification delta in percent.

Qt.SmartZoomNativeGesture

Boolean magnification state.

Qt.RotateNativeGesture

Specifies the rotation delta in degrees.

Qt.SwipeNativeGesture

Sent after a swipe movement.

class NavigationMode#

This enum type describes the mode for moving focus.

Constant

Description

Qt.NavigationModeNone

Only the touch screen is used.

Qt.NavigationModeKeypadTabOrder

Key_Up and Key_Down are used to change focus.

Qt.NavigationModeKeypadDirectional

Key_Up , Key_Down , Key_Left and Key_Right are used to change focus.

Qt.NavigationModeCursorAuto

The mouse cursor is used to change focus, it is displayed only on non touchscreen devices. The keypad is used to implement a virtual cursor, unless the device has an analog mouse type of input device (e.g. touchpad). This is the recommended setting for an application such as a web browser that needs pointer control on both touch and non-touch devices.

Qt.NavigationModeCursorForceVisible

The mouse cursor is used to change focus, it is displayed regardless of device type. The keypad is used to implement a virtual cursor, unless the device has an analog mouse type of input device (e.g. touchpad)

Note

Cursor navigation is not currently implemented on any platform and behaves as NavigationModeNone.

See also

navigationMode()

New in version 4.6.

class CursorMoveStyle#

This enum describes the movement style available to text cursors. The options are:

Constant

Description

Qt.LogicalMoveStyle

Within a left-to-right text block, decrease cursor position when pressing left arrow key, increase cursor position when pressing the right arrow key. If the text block is right-to-left, the opposite behavior applies.

Qt.VisualMoveStyle

Pressing the left arrow key will always cause the cursor to move left, regardless of the text’s writing direction. Pressing the right arrow key will always cause the cursor to move right.

New in version 4.8.

class TimerType#

The timer type indicates how accurate a timer can be.

Constant

Description

Qt.PreciseTimer

Precise timers try to keep millisecond accuracy

Qt.CoarseTimer

Coarse timers try to keep accuracy within 5% of the desired interval

Qt.VeryCoarseTimer

Very coarse timers only keep full second accuracy

On UNIX (including Linux, macOS, and iOS), Qt will keep millisecond accuracy for Qt::PreciseTimer. For Qt::CoarseTimer, the interval will be adjusted up to 5% to align the timer with other timers that are expected to fire at or around the same time. The objective is to make most timers wake up at the same time, thereby reducing CPU wakeups and power consumption.

On Windows, Qt will use Windows’s Multimedia timer facility (if available) for Qt::PreciseTimer and normal Windows timers for Qt::CoarseTimer and Qt::VeryCoarseTimer.

On all platforms, the interval for Qt::VeryCoarseTimer is rounded to the nearest full second (e.g. an interval of 23500ms will be rounded to 24000ms, and 20300ms to 20000ms).

class ScrollPhase#

This enum describes the phase of scrolling.

Constant

Description

Qt.NoScrollPhase

The input device doesn’t support scroll phase. This value was introduced in Qt 5.7.

Qt.ScrollBegin

Scrolling is about to begin, but the scrolling distance did not yet change.

Qt.ScrollUpdate

The scrolling distance has changed (default).

Qt.ScrollEnd

Scrolling has ended, and the scrolling distance did not change anymore.

Qt.ScrollMomentum

The user no longer touches the input device, but scrolling continues due to scroll momentum. This value was introduced in Qt 5.12.

class MouseEventSource#

This enum describes the source of a mouse event and can be useful to determine if the event is an artificial mouse event originating from another device such as a touchscreen.

Constant

Description

Qt.MouseEventNotSynthesized

The most common value. On platforms where such information is available this value indicates that the event was generated in response to a genuine mouse event in the system.

Qt.MouseEventSynthesizedBySystem

Indicates that the mouse event was synthesized from a touch event by the platform.

Qt.MouseEventSynthesizedByQt

Indicates that the mouse event was synthesized from an unhandled touch event by Qt.

Qt.MouseEventSynthesizedByApplication

Indicates that the mouse event was synthesized by the application. This allows distinguishing application-generated mouse events from the ones that are coming from the system or are synthesized by Qt. This value was introduced in Qt 5.6

class MouseEventFlag#

(inherits enum.Flag) This enum provides additional information concerning a QMouseEvent.

Constant

Description

Qt.MouseEventCreatedDoubleClick

Indicates that Qt has created a MouseButtonDblClick event from this event. The flag is set in the causing MouseButtonPress , and not in the resulting MouseButtonDblClick .

class ChecksumType#

This enum describes the possible standards used by qChecksum() .

Constant

Description

Qt.ChecksumIso3309

Checksum calculation based on ISO 3309.

Qt.ChecksumItuV41

Checksum calculation based on ITU-V.41.

class HighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy#

This enum describes the possible High-DPI scale factor rounding policies, which decide how non-integer scale factors (such as Windows 150%) are handled.

The active policy is set by calling QGuiApplication::setHighDdpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy() before the application object is created.

Constant

Description

Qt.HighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy.Round

Round up for .5 and above.

Qt.HighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy.Ceil

Always round up.

Qt.HighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy.Floor

Always round down.

Qt.HighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy.RoundPreferFloor

Round up for .75 and above.

Qt.HighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy.PassThrough

Don’t round.

class PermissionStatus#

This enum describes the possible statuses of a permissions.

Constant

Description

Qt.PermissionStatus.Undetermined

The permission status is not yet known. Permission should be requested via requestPermission() to determine the actual status. This status will never be the result of requesting a permission.

Qt.PermissionStatus.Granted

The user has explicitly granted the application the permission, or the permission is known to not require user authorization on the given platform.

Qt.PermissionStatus.Denied

The user has explicitly denied the application the requested permission, or the permission is known to not be accessible or applicable to applications on the given platform.

Note

On Android, there is no Undetermined status by the platform’s APIs. Thus, if a permission is denied for an app, checkPermission() returns Undetermined by default until requestPermission() is called. After that checkPermission() reports a non Undetermined status.

See also

requestPermission() checkPermission() Application Permissions

New in version 6.5.

class ReturnByValueConstant#

This is a dummy type, designed to help users transition from certain deprecated APIs to their replacement APIs.

See also

pixmap()

static beginPropertyUpdateGroup()#

Marks the beginning of a property update group. Inside this group, changing a property does neither immediately update any dependent properties nor does it trigger change notifications. Those are instead deferred until the group is ended by a call to endPropertyUpdateGroup .

Groups can be nested. In that case, the deferral ends only after the outermost group has been ended.

Note

Change notifications are only send after all property values affected by the group have been updated to their new values. This allows re-establishing a class invariant if multiple properties need to be updated, preventing any external observer from noticing an inconsistent state.

See also

endPropertyUpdateGroup QScopedPropertyUpdateGroup

static bin(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setIntegerBase (2) on stream and returns stream.

See also

oct() dec() hex() QTextStream manipulators

static bom(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Toggles insertion of the Byte Order Mark on stream when QTextStream is used with a UTF encoding.

See also

setGenerateByteOrderMark() QTextStream manipulators

static center(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setFieldAlignment ( AlignCenter ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

left() right() QTextStream manipulators

static dec(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setIntegerBase (10) on stream and returns stream.

See also

bin() oct() hex() QTextStream manipulators

static endPropertyUpdateGroup()#

Ends a property update group. If the outermost group has been ended, and deferred binding evaluations and notifications happen now.

Warning

Calling endPropertyUpdateGroup without a preceding call to beginPropertyUpdateGroup results in undefined behavior.

See also

beginPropertyUpdateGroup QScopedPropertyUpdateGroup

static endl(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Warning

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Writes ‘\n’ to the stream and flushes the stream.

Equivalent to

stream << '\n' << Qt.flush

Note: On Windows, all ‘\n’ characters are written as ‘\r\n’ if QTextStream ‘s device or string is opened using the QIODevice::Text flag.

See also

flush() reset() QTextStream manipulators

static fixed(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setRealNumberNotation ( FixedNotation ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

scientific() QTextStream manipulators

static flush(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls flush() on stream and returns stream.

See also

endl() reset() QTextStream manipulators

static forcepoint(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setNumberFlags ( numberFlags() | ForcePoint ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

noforcepoint() forcesign() showbase() QTextStream manipulators

static forcesign(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setNumberFlags ( numberFlags() | ForceSign ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

noforcesign() forcepoint() showbase() QTextStream manipulators

static hex(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setIntegerBase (16) on stream and returns stream.

Note

The hex modifier can only be used for writing to streams.

See also

bin() oct() dec() QTextStream manipulators

static left(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setFieldAlignment ( AlignLeft ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

right() center() QTextStream manipulators

static lowercasebase(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setNumberFlags ( numberFlags() & ~ UppercaseBase ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

uppercasebase() lowercasedigits() QTextStream manipulators

static lowercasedigits(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setNumberFlags ( numberFlags() & ~ UppercaseDigits ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

uppercasedigits() lowercasebase() QTextStream manipulators

static noforcepoint(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setNumberFlags ( numberFlags() & ~ ForcePoint ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

forcepoint() noforcesign() noshowbase() QTextStream manipulators

static noforcesign(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setNumberFlags ( numberFlags() & ~ ForceSign ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

forcesign() noforcepoint() noshowbase() QTextStream manipulators

static noshowbase(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setNumberFlags ( numberFlags() & ~ ShowBase ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

showbase() noforcesign() noforcepoint() QTextStream manipulators

static oct(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setIntegerBase (8) on stream and returns stream.

See also

bin() dec() hex() QTextStream manipulators

static reset(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls reset() on stream and returns stream.

See also

flush() QTextStream manipulators

static right(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setFieldAlignment ( AlignRight ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

left() center() QTextStream manipulators

static scientific(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setRealNumberNotation ( ScientificNotation ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

fixed() QTextStream manipulators

static showbase(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setNumberFlags ( numberFlags() | ShowBase ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

noshowbase() forcesign() forcepoint() QTextStream manipulators

static uppercasebase(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setNumberFlags ( numberFlags() | UppercaseBase ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

lowercasebase() uppercasedigits() QTextStream manipulators

static uppercasedigits(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls setNumberFlags ( numberFlags() | UppercaseDigits ) on stream and returns stream.

See also

lowercasedigits() uppercasebase() QTextStream manipulators

static ws(s)#
Parameters:

sQTextStream

Return type:

QTextStream

Calls skipWhiteSpace() on stream and returns stream.

See also

QTextStream manipulators