[Interest] QMenu size

[Joshua Grauman]

Bo,

Thanks! These are great ideas. It's not about making it work like another 
system, but it is a unique requirement having to do with recording the 
screen...

If you don't mind, could you clarify a bit what you mean with a couple of 
your suggestions?

> - Work with the width for height tricks

What does this mean?

> - You can move the menu after it appears with either a reimplementation in 
> the resizeEvent, eventFilter on resize or other events, or using 0 time 
> single shot timer

I understand the first two of these, but where would I implement a 0 time 
single shot?

Thanks again so much!!!

Josh

On Tue, 15 Nov 2016, Bo Thorsen wrote:

> Den 08-11-2016 kl. 23:05 skrev Joshua Grauman:
>>  Hello all,
>>
>>  I am wondering if there is a way to customize the size of a QMenu used
>>  as a context menu. I have it so that when I right click, a popup menu
>>  comes up. But I would like it so the QMenu doesn't ever go outside of
>>  the window it is clicked in. Right now, if you click near the bottom,
>>  the QMenu drops below my app. Or if I have a QMenu with a lot of items,
>>  it breaks it up into two columns worth of items, is there a way to make
>>  that more (for a wider and less tall sub-QMenu)? Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> This sounds to me like you are trying to force Qt to do something that some 
> other system used to do?
>
> I have a lot of requests from customers and I always try to make them accept 
> that the default way of doing things are there for a number of reasons and 
> they should accept it the it is. So, my advice is to stop thinking about 
> this. Or make the guy deciding this stop thinking about it :)
>
> However, if you can't do that, you always have options. Here are a set of 
> some of the things I would try:
>
> - Set the maximum height on the QMenu
>
> - Work with the width for height tricks
>
> - You can move the menu after it appears with either a reimplementation in 
> the resizeEvent, eventFilter on resize or other events, or using 0 time 
> single shot timer
>
> - There are probably a bunch of possible hacks that might work in the area of 
> proxy QStyle subclasses
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Bo Thorsen,
> Director, Viking Software.
>
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