Qt Convenience API

Note: The Qt Convenience API is only available in Squish for Qt editions.

Qt Convenience Functions

activateItem	Activates an item from a list or menu.
activateLink	Activates a link in a QTextBrowser or QLabel.
castToQObject	Downcast a QObject* to its most specific type.
clickButton	Clicks the specified button.
clickItem	Click an item inside a list, table, or tree.
clickTab	Clicks on a Tab in a QTabWidget.
doubleClick	Double-clicks the mouse.
doubleClickItem	Double-click an item in a View widget.
doubleTap	Double-taps on an object.
dragAndDrop	Performs a Drag and Drop operation
dragItemBy	Performs a drag operation.
dropOn	Performs a drop of an operation started by startDrag
flick	Performs a gesture on a QML Flickable.
gesture	Plays a gesture on a window or widget
hideKeyboard	Hides the on-screen keyboard when it is showing.
installEventHandler	Installs a Qt Event Handler.
installLazySignalHandler	Handles signals by objects that are looked up by name (lazily) whenever a signal is emitted.
installSignalHandler	Installs a Qt Signal Handler.
longMouseClick	Long Press with a mouse or tap-gesture.
longMouseDrag	Performs a mouse drag operation with a fixed delay after the initial press.
mouseClick	Clicks the mouse on the specified object.
mouseDrag	Performs a mouse drag operation.
mouseWheel	Performs a mouse wheel operation.
openContextMenu	Simulates the user opening a context menu.
openItemContextMenu	Simulates opening a context menu in an Item of a View.
pressAndHold	Performs a press and hold operation on a QDeclarativeItem.
qmlContext	Returns the QQmlContext for a given object.
qmlEngine	Returns the QQmlEngine associated with an object.
readGesture	Opens a gesture file and returns a GestureBuilder object.
scrollTo	Scrolls a widget to a position.
sendEvent	Sends a Qt Event to an object.
setFocus	Changes the keyboard input focus to a specified object.
setMouseTracking	Enables the recording of mouseMove events for QWidget classes.
setRecordMouseDrag	Enable or disable recording of mouse drag operations on QWidgets.
setWindowState	For top-level windows: Maximize, Minimize, FullScreen, or Normal.
spinDown	Clicks "down" on a QSpinBox.
spinUp	Clicks "up" on a QSpinBox.
startDrag	Initiates a drag operation on a given object.
tapObject	Tap on a Widget or an Item.
touchAndDrag	Performs a touch-based drag operation.
touchPress	Performs a touch-based press operation.
touchRelease	Performs a touch-based release operation.
type	Types text into an editable input widget/item.
uninstallEventHandler	Uninstalls a Qt Event Handler.
uninstallLazySignalHandler	Uninstalls a "lazy" Qt signal handler.
uninstallSignalHandler	Uninstalls a Qt Signal Handler.
waitForSignal	Waits for a Qt signal to be emitted by a QObject.

Qt Helper Classes/APIs

GestureBuilder Class	Class for representing touch gestures.
QML Extension API	API for customizing how Squish handles QML types.
QWeb(Engine)View Support	Helper methods added to QWebView and QWebEngineView classes.

Qt Convenience Function Parameters

Some of Qt's convenience functions can take a modifierState argument which indicates which special keys are pressed at the time of a mouse click. And some of the functions can also take a button argument which indicates which mouse button was clicked.

The modifierState can be one or more of the following: Qt.NoModifier, Qt.AltModifier, Qt.ControlModifier, Qt.KeypadModifier, Qt.MetaModifier, Qt.ShiftModifier. If more than one is used they must be OR-d together, for example, Qt.AltModifier|Qt.ShiftModifier. The form shown here works for Python and JavaScript. For Perl and Ruby replace the period with two colons, e.g., Qt::ControlModifier, and for Tcl use the enum function, e.g., enum Qt ControlModifier.

The button can be any one of: Qt.NoButton, Qt.LeftButton, Qt.MidButton, Qt.RightButton.

For Perl use the following syntax: Qt::LeftButton.
For Ruby use the following syntax: Qt::LEFT_BUTTON.
For Tcl use the following syntax: enum Qt LeftButton.

Native Dialogs on KDE

To ensure the most reliable recording and replaying of tests, Squish uses Qt's own dialogs (e.g., for choosing colors, files, and fonts), rather than the underlying platform's native dialogs.

Unfortunately, on KDE, Qt uses the KDE dialogs and this can cause problems when developing cross-platform test scripts. The solution is to set the QT_PLATFORM_PLUGIN environment variable to an invalid value, such as QT_PLATFORM_PLUGIN=nonesuch. This can be done, for instance, in the Squish IDE's Test Suite Settings view's Environment section.

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