programmatically right click on QSystemTrayIcon

[noa l]

Hi All
I will appreciate your help in this matter:

Normally, the context menu of a QSystemTRayIcon will appear when user right-click on the icon.

i want it to show also when left click. So I catch "activated" with "trigger".
Now what do i do? Sure enough you will say this line is good: menu->show().

However - if user makes a left click before any right click action was performed - the context menu is opened in 0,0 position instead of near the icon.

Since the system tray can be located up or down the desktop - i do not want to compute the desired location myself. I would rather immitate the "right click" action programmatically, as if the user right clicked the middle of the icon.

I do not know how to do that - I searched the net and try many things.. but nothing worked. Please note the QSystenTrayIcon is not a QWidget...

I would appreciate any help - and if you have a piece of code that works i will be very greatfull to see it..
Thanks
Noa

[giacomelli.fabio]

I did it in this way

void supertray::click_on_icon(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason motivo)
{
  if (motivo == QSystemTrayIcon::DoubleClick)
  {
    myClip.setWindowFlags(Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint/* | Qt::FramelessWindowHint */);
    myClip.show();
  }
 
  else if ((motivo == QSystemTrayIcon::Context) || (motivo == QSystemTrayIcon::Trigger))
    trayMenu->show();
}

void supertray::click_on_icon(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason motivo)
{
  if (motivo == QSystemTrayIcon::DoubleClick)
  {
    myClip.setWindowFlags(Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint/* | Qt::FramelessWindowHint */);
    myClip.show();
  }

  else if ((motivo == QSystemTrayIcon::Context) || (motivo == QSystemTrayIcon::Trigger))
    trayMenu->show();
}

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[noa l]

Thank you for your reply.

But as far as i can tell you did exactly what i did , which is "trayMeny->show" (Did i understand correct?). So I am still with the same problem. If the menu has never shown before - it will be opened in (0,0) position.

Any other ideas?

[viulskiez]

I think it is quite simple. Call QMenu::popup() instead of QMenu::show().


Example:

void MyWidget::activated(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason reason)
{
    switch(reason)
    {
    case QSystemTrayIcon::Trigger:
        trayContexMenu->popup(QCursor::pos());
        break;
    // ....
    }
 
}

void MyWidget::activated(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason reason)
{
    switch(reason)
    {
    case QSystemTrayIcon::Trigger:
        trayContexMenu->popup(QCursor::pos());
        break;
    // ....
    }

}

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Hope it's helps..

[noa l]

hello viulskiez

It looks as if it did the trick... !!!

I was not aware of this option ,Thank you very much :-)

Noa

[viulskiez]

You are welcome.