QShortCut usage

[mllapps]

I tried this project and it is very nice. But now I want to cancel (stop) the spinner if the user push the ESC button on their keyboard.

This is only possible if I set ' disableParentWhenSpinning=false'. I want to register a QShortCut if spinner is active. Do you have any idea?

[mllapps]

I tried this at initialize() method

    /* Push ESC button to abort the active request */
    auto shortcut = new QShortcut(Qt::Key_Escape, this);
    shortcut->setContext(Qt::ApplicationShortcut);
    connect(shortcut, &QShortcut::activated, [this](){
        qDebug() << "Try to cancle the active request";
    });

[hbtalha]

For new comers: I came up with a solution that works for me.
First I used the fork from https://github.com/huxingyi/QtWaitingSpinner (found in the PR in this repo), that allowed me to use text. Note that it uses an obsolete (I am using Qt 6.1.2) method, I fixed that and you can find the fix in a PR I opened there.

Now when using:
I set disableParentWhenSpinning to false when calling the ctor, that way it permits me to use QShortcut in the MainWindow and then went to disable all the widgets I had present in my MainWindow.

MainWindow::MainWindow()
    : QMainWindow(0)
    , ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
...
    spinner = new WaitingSpinnerWidget(this, Qt::ApplicationModal, false);
    spinner->setText(tr("Press Esc to cancel"));
    spinner->setTextColor(Qt::black);

    QShortcut* sh = new QShortcut(QKeySequence(Qt::Key_Escape), this);
    connect(sh, &QShortcut::activated, this, [this] { setSpinner(false); }); // you might check if `spinner` is running before calling the function setSpinner

...
}

void MainWindow::setSpinner(bool enabled)
{
    if(enabled)
        spinner->start();
    else
        spinner->stop();

    menuBar()->setDisabled(enabled);
    ui->toolBar->setDisabled(enabled);
    ui->tableWidget->setDisabled(enabled);
}