When input methods are enabled for the focus object we send key events
through interpretKeyEvents, which will involve the input method in the
key event processing. The input method will get back to us with callbacks
such as insertText, setMarkedText, or doCommandBySelector.
In the case of insertText, when the inserted text matches the originating
key event's text, we opt to not send the text as an QInputMethodEvent,
and instead fall back to sending it as a normal QKeyEvent. The reason
for this is that Qt's IM protocol was designed to handle composited
text, so sending non-composited (but IM-initiated) text input as IM
events is unexpected (see 2d05d3bd28).
However, we cannot assume that the input method will always call us
back with one of the above mentioned methods. The input method can
very well eat the event as part of its own operation. This happens
for example when pressing and holding 'a' in a US English keyboard
layout, which will pop up an input panel for the various accents
available. Or it may happen when using the AquaSKK third party IM,
which uses the 'l' key to switch the input mode to latin without
producing any characters.
To allow these input methods the freedom to control the processing
of key events we need to reverse the logic for when we send key
events as QKeyEvent. We now assume that the IM will handle the
event, and only trigger QKeyEvent in two cases where we explicitly
were called back by the IM, but decided that a QKeyEvent is needed:
- If the IM calls insertText and we consider the text simple text
- If the IM calls doCommandBySelector and we can't find a matching
selector for the command. We only implement insertNewline and
cancel, so in all other cases we want to pass on the key event
to let the focus object handle it, for example for 'Select All'
and similar key combinations.
Fixes: QTBUG-46300
Fixes: QTBUG-71394
Pick-to: 6.2
Inspired-by: Vladimir Belyavsky
Change-Id: I9a73a8e1baa2ebe0c5df1166a9ec3d9843632bb1
Reviewed-by: Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer@qt.io>
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