Pyside how to set multi shorcuts to one pushButton

Question

I have one pushButton on my app, I want to trigger it when I press 'Return' or 'Enter'(num-pad) keyboard. I tried many way, but failed..

   self.ui.PushButton1.setShortcut('return')
   # I want like: (['return', 'enter'])

Answer 1

You can't use setShortcut() if you want multiple shortcuts for the same button. Calling it the second time will clear the first shortcut. You have to use multiple QShortCut and connect their activated signal.

from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QPushButton, QVBoxLayout
from PyQt6.QtGui import QShortcut


class Window(QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        pb = QPushButton('push')
        pb.clicked.connect(lambda: print('clicked'))

        short1 = QShortcut('return', self)
        short1.activated.connect(pb.click)

        short2 = QShortcut('backspace', self)
        short2.activated.connect(pb.click)

        lay = QVBoxLayout(self)
        lay.addWidget(pb)


app = QApplication([])
window = Window()
window.show()
app.exec()

Notes:
I used 'backspace' as a second key because I don't have numpad 'enter' on my keyboard.
On PyQt5, you have to import QShortcut from QtWidgets

Since you connect both shortcuts to the same slot, you can shorten the code like this:

    for key in ('return', 'backspace'):
        QShortcut(key, self).activated.connect(pb.click)