Adding actions to a context menu

[aarelovich]

Hello Everybody:

Simple problem here. I use a QPlainTextEdit to do a simple code editor. Now the text edit allready has a standard right-click-contex-menu and I want to add two actions (comment and uncomment). However with the code I found on the web:

action_comment = new QAction("Comment",this);
     this->addAction(action_comment);
     this->setContextMenuPolicy(Qt::ActionsContextMenu);

action_comment = new QAction("Comment",this);
     this->addAction(action_comment);
     this->setContextMenuPolicy(Qt::ActionsContextMenu);

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And this works but all the default options disappear and only comment appears. What I want to know is, Is there any way to add actions to the default context menu or do I have to create one from scratch if I want more actions?

Thanks for any help

[jpn]

See QPlainTextEdit::createStandardContextMenu

[aarelovich]

Hi:

Sorry to bother again, but I did found a solution. I reimplemented the contextMenuEvent with this code:

void CodeEditor::contextMenuEvent(QContextMenuEvent *event){
     QMenu *menu = this->createStandardContextMenu();     
     menu->addAction(action_comment);
     menu->addAction(action_uncomment);
     menu->insertSeparator(action_comment);
     menu->exec(event->globalPos());
 }

void CodeEditor::contextMenuEvent(QContextMenuEvent *event){
     QMenu *menu = this->createStandardContextMenu();     
     menu->addAction(action_comment);
     menu->addAction(action_uncomment);
     menu->insertSeparator(action_comment);
     menu->exec(event->globalPos());
 }

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action_comment/uncomment were two private objects which are created and connected in the constructor to their respective code.

I'm posting it in case it helps anyone.

[spirit]

you could also use QWidget::customContextMenuRequested and QWdiget::setContextMenuPolicy with Qt::CustomContextMenu.

[zeFree]

a better "working" and tested example is here:
http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/3516...u-of-qtextedit

I hope I have helped!