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How to show QMenu on left click


The QMenu shows up on a QLineEdit right-click. Question: How to modify this code to show the menu on a left-click as well?

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from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
import sys

class MyWindow(QWidget):
    def __init__(self, *args):
        QWidget.__init__(self, *args)

    def actionFunct(self, argBool):
        print 'actionFunct()', argBool

    def buildGUI(self):
        self.line=QLineEdit(self)
        self.line.setText('My Line Edit')      

        self.menu=QMenu(self.line)

        self.line.installEventFilter(self)
        self.menu.installEventFilter(self)

        for i in range(3):
            actn=QAction('Action 0%s'%i, self.menu, checkable=True)
            actn.triggered.connect(self.actionFunct)
            self.menu.addAction(actn)

        self.line.setContextMenuPolicy(Qt.CustomContextMenu)
        self.line.connect(self.line, SIGNAL("customContextMenuRequested(QPoint)" ), self.lineClicked)

        layout=QVBoxLayout(self)
        layout.addWidget(self.line)
        self.setLayout(layout)

    def lineClicked(self, QPos):
        print 'lineClicked', QPos
        parentPosition = self.line.mapToGlobal(QPoint(0, 0))        
        menuPosition = parentPosition + QPos

        self.menu.move(menuPosition)
        self.menu.show() 

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    w = MyWindow()
    w.buildGUI()
    w.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

Solution

  • You need to define an eventFilter method on your Window class to filter/handle the event.

    def eventFilter(self, obj, event):
        if obj == self.line and isinstance(event, QMouseEvent) and event.buttons() & Qt.LeftButton:
            self.lineClicked(event.pos())
            return True
        return False