SOLUTION # 1 (Thanks to Brendan Abel).
Use installEventFilter()
method to route all the lineedit events via easy-to-be-customized eventFilter()
method:
self.line.installEventFilter(self)
Now all the events self.line
triggers are going to go through eventFilter
. There using received event
object we query postion using:
event.pos()
which we send to leftClicked()
methods as an argument (the same method is called on lineeidit's right-click).
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.line.installEventFilter(self)
self.menu=QMenu(self.line)
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.leftClicked)
self.line.cursorPositionChanged.connect(self.leftClicked)
layout=QVBoxLayout(self)
layout.addWidget(self.line)
self.setLayout(layout)
def eventFilter(self, widget, event):
print 'eventFilter', widget, event
if widget == self.line and isinstance(event, QMouseEvent) and event.buttons() & Qt.LeftButton:
self.leftClicked(event.pos())
return True
return False
def leftClicked(self, QPos):
print 'leftClicked', 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 # 2
First connect QLineEdit
's easiest-to-trigger cursorPositionChanged
signal to a method.
When on a left-click this method is called query the current mouse cursor position with Qt's QCursor.pos()
:
current_mouse_cursor=QCursor.pos()
which returns something like:
QtCore.QPoint(852, 595)
Finally move the menu to a queried mouse cursor position and show it:
self.menu.move(current_mouse_cursor)
self.menu.show()
A working code is posted below:
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)
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.rightClicked)
self.line.cursorPositionChanged.connect(self.leftClicked)
layout=QVBoxLayout(self)
layout.addWidget(self.line)
self.setLayout(layout)
def leftClicked(self, arg):
print 'leftClicked', arg, QCursor.pos()
self.menu.move(QCursor.pos())
self.menu.show()
def rightClicked(self, QPos):
print 'rightClicked', 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_())