How can i get current focused QLineEdit in qt?

Question

How can I identify which QLineEdit has the current focus in qt?

To set the focus for QLinEdit I have tried:

   ui->linedit->setfocus();

but it also not working for me. How can I solve these two?

Answer 1

To identify which focused Widget (QlineEdit or any QWidget), you need to get all your current widget children, cast each to QLineEdit, and check which one has focus, sample code:

QList<QWidget*> mylineEdits = this->findChildren<QWidget*>();
QListIterator<QWidget*> it(mylineEdits); // iterate through the list of widgets
QWidget *lineEditField;
while (it.hasNext()) {
    lineEditField = it.next(); // take each widget in the list
    if(QLineEdit *lineE = qobject_cast<QLineEdit*>(lineEditField)) {  // check if iterated widget is of type QLineEdit
        //
        if (lineE->hasFocus())
          {
            // this has the focus ...   
          }

    }
}

Second issue, setting focus on QWidget, already answered in this Post:

Answer 2

Set focus to a widget with setFocus() function.

ui->lineEdit_3->setFocus();

You can check focus on a widget using hasFocus() function.

QWidget * widgetName = qApp->focusWidget();
qDebug () << widgetName->objectName();

output: "lineEdit_3"

When the focused widget is changed QApplication::focusChanged(QWidget *old, QWidget *now) signal will be emitted. You can connect it to a slot where you do whatever you like based on the focus change.