How can I show a context menu when right clicking on QTreeWidgetItem?

**Joachie** · 12th April 2009, 17:05

I have a QTreeWidget, which is populated with QTreeWidgetItems. How do I setup a handler so that when a user right clicks on each tree item, different context menus can be shown?

Many thanks, I tried a few things like the contextMenuPolicy but that only appears to work on the QTreeWidget itself, not its actual items.

**drhex** · 12th April 2009, 20:32

override contextEvent() and feed the pos() of the event to the QTreeWidget's itemAt() to find out which tree item you right-clicked.

**Joachie** · 12th April 2009, 23:53

Originally Posted by drhex

override contextEvent() and feed the pos() of the event to the QTreeWidget's itemAt() to find out which tree item you right-clicked.

This doesn't work because the event doesn't get fired when right clicking on a tree item, only when right clicking on the header of the tree widget.

**Joachie** · 13th April 2009, 19:34

Any other suggestions on this? There must be an easy way to do this no? I can't imagine nobody is showing right click context sensitive menus in QT apps.