Merge bitcoin-core/gui#580: Getting ready to Qt 6 (3/n). Do not use `QKeyEvent` copy constructor

3ec6504a2e5b4afb7a2719a82191e0b96fe23214 qt: Do not use `QKeyEvent` copy constructor (Hennadii Stepanov)

Pull request description:

  This PR is preparation for [Qt 6](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/24798), and it fixes an experimental build with Qt 6.2.4 as copying of `QEvent` has been [disabled](https://github.com/qt/qtbase/commit/19f9b0d5f54379151eb71e98555b203ad6756276) in Qt 6.0.0.

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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/qt/rpcconsole.cpp b/src/qt/rpcconsole.cpp
index 8fee359758..eb69fabe89 100644
--- a/src/qt/rpcconsole.cpp
+++ b/src/qt/rpcconsole.cpp
@@ -618,17 +618,16 @@ bool RPCConsole::eventFilter(QObject* obj, QEvent *event)
         case Qt::Key_Down: if(obj == ui->lineEdit) { browseHistory(1); return true; } break;
         case Qt::Key_PageUp: /* pass paging keys to messages widget */
         case Qt::Key_PageDown:
-            if(obj == ui->lineEdit)
-            {
-                QApplication::postEvent(ui->messagesWidget, new QKeyEvent(*keyevt));
+            if (obj == ui->lineEdit) {
+                QApplication::sendEvent(ui->messagesWidget, keyevt);
                 return true;
             }
             break;
         case Qt::Key_Return:
         case Qt::Key_Enter:
             // forward these events to lineEdit
-            if(obj == autoCompleter->popup()) {
-                QApplication::postEvent(ui->lineEdit, new QKeyEvent(*keyevt));
+            if (obj == autoCompleter->popup()) {
+                QApplication::sendEvent(ui->lineEdit, keyevt);
                 autoCompleter->popup()->hide();
                 return true;
             }
@@ -642,7 +641,7 @@ bool RPCConsole::eventFilter(QObject* obj, QEvent *event)
                   ((mod & Qt::ShiftModifier) && key == Qt::Key_Insert)))
             {
                 ui->lineEdit->setFocus();
-                QApplication::postEvent(ui->lineEdit, new QKeyEvent(*keyevt));
+                QApplication::sendEvent(ui->lineEdit, keyevt);
                 return true;
             }
         }