QListWidget right-mouse click

[Skizmo]

Hi,

I'm a bit puzzled. I'm trying to create a popupmenu when I right-click a QListWidget, but I can only find the itemClicked () function, and this function doesn't tell me which button is used to click. Anyone here who knows how this 'normally' works ??

[jpn]

Reimplement QWidget::contextMenuEvent() and use QListWidget::itemAt() to get item at given position.

[Skizmo]

Reimplement ?? You mean to say that I have to subclass it so I can create a popupmenu ?? That would be totally stupid. I thought QT tried to make it easy for us

[jpn]

That's the default behaviour. There are a few different ways for implementing a context menu. See QWidget::contextMenuPolicy for other possibilities. Also, this topic has been discussed several times on the forums.

[clive]

create the signal / slot for the QListWidget like this..
Assuming the QListWidget is called lbUserList...

connect(lbUserList, SIGNAL(customContextMenuRequested(const QPoint &)), this, SLOT(userListMenuRequested(const QPoint &)));

connect(lbUserList, SIGNAL(customContextMenuRequested(const QPoint &)), this, SLOT(userListMenuRequested(const QPoint &)));

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Then in the slot place some code like this

void MainWindowImpl::userListMenuRequested(const QPoint & pos)
{
	QPoint globalPos = lbUserList->mapToGlobal(pos);	// Map the global position to the userlist
	QModelIndex t = lbUserList->indexAt(pos);
	lbUserList->item(t.row())->setSelected(true);			// even a right click will select the item
	userListMenu->exec(globalPos);
}

void MainWindowImpl::userListMenuRequested(const QPoint & pos)
{
	QPoint globalPos = lbUserList->mapToGlobal(pos);	// Map the global position to the userlist
	QModelIndex t = lbUserList->indexAt(pos);
	lbUserList->item(t.row())->setSelected(true);			// even a right click will select the item
	userListMenu->exec(globalPos);
}

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[Skizmo]

clive : Thanx. .. that looks better

jpn : I used the search a few times, but could not find anything. . .

[abbapatris]

I just wanted to thank JPN for his posts. I have been looking for some of this information and what he posted really helped out. I know this post is a few months old, but thanks. HUGE help