Supported types of user input▲
The Qt Quick module provides support for the most common types of user input, including mouse and touch events, text input, and key-press events. Other modules provide support for other types of user input.
This article covers how to handle basic user input. For information about audio-visual input, see the Qt Multimedia documentation.
Mouse and touch events▲
The input handlers let QML applications handle mouse and touch events. For example, you could create a button by adding a TapHandler to an Image, or to a Rectangle with a Text object inside. The TapHandler responds to taps or clicks on any type of pointing device.
import QtQuick
Item {
id: root
width: 320
height: 480
Rectangle {
color: "#272822"
width: 320
height: 480
}
Rectangle {
id: rectangle
x: 40
y: 20
width: 120
height: 120
color: "red"
TapHandler {
onTapped: rectangle.width += 10
}
}
}Some Item types have their own built-in input handling. For example, Flickable responds to mouse dragging, touch flicking, and mouse wheel scrolling.
Keyboard and button events▲
import QtQuick
Item {
id: root
width: 320
height: 480
Rectangle {
color: "#272822"
width: 320
height: 480
}
Rectangle {
id: rectangle
x: 40
y: 20
width: 120
height: 120
color: "red"
focus: true
Keys.onUpPressed: rectangle.y -= 10
Keys.onDownPressed: rectangle.y += 10
Keys.onLeftPressed: rectangle.x += 10
Keys.onRightPressed: rectangle.x -= 10
}
}For text input, we have several QML types to choose from. TextInput provides an unstyled single-line editable text, while TextField is more suitable for form fields in applications. TextEdit can handle multi-line editable text, but TextArea is a better alternative as it adds styling.
The following snippet demonstrates how to use these types in your application:
import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Controls
import QtQuick.Layouts
ApplicationWindow {
width: 300
height: 200
visible: true
ColumnLayout {
anchors.fill: parent
TextField {
id: singleline
text: "Initial Text"
Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignHCenter | Qt.AlignTop
Layout.margins: 5
background: Rectangle {
implicitWidth: 200
implicitHeight: 40
border.color: singleline.focus ? "#21be2b" : "lightgray"
color: singleline.focus ? "lightgray" : "transparent"
}
}
TextArea {
id: multiline
placeholderText: "Initial text\n...\n...\n"
Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignLeft
Layout.fillWidth: true
Layout.fillHeight: true
Layout.margins: 5
background: Rectangle {
implicitWidth: 200
implicitHeight: 100
border.color: multiline.focus ? "#21be2b" : "lightgray"
color: multiline.focus ? "lightgray" : "transparent"
}
}
}
}

