[Interest] Add context menu to QTreeWidget based on Specific Item being clicked

[Michael Jackson]

Thanks. That will work.

Mike J.

On May 10, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> Hi,
> 
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> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Michael Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to add a "right click" or context menu to a QTreeWidget where the menu that gets popped up has menus that are specific to the item being clicked on. So far all my attempts have failed.
> 
> I have tried to add my higher level QWidget class (The parent of the QTreeWidget) as an Event Filter for the QTreeWidget but I am not receiving the mouse clicked events. I tried adding the QAction to the QTreeWidgetItem directly by getting the QWidget from the QTreeWidgetItem while it is being constructed but at that point in the code the QTreeWidgetItem does not have a QWidget yet so that does not work.
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> I am hoping it is something simple that I am just missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Your three options are:
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> a) override contextMenuEvent in the QTreeWidget and map the x/y position to an item using QTreeWidget::itemAt() (make sure to keep the default context menu policy on the QTreeWidget
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> b) add QAction's to the QTreeWidget and set the contextMenuPolicy to Qt::ActionsContextMenu, then fetch the list of selected items from the TreeWidget in the actions triggered-slots using QTreeWidget::selectedItems
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> c) set the contextMenuPolicy to Qt::CustomContextMenu and connect yourself to the 'customContextMenuRequested' signal, then again map from the given point to the item using QTreeWidget::itemAt()
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> Andreas
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