How to make context menu to work only on a specific widget?

[Aram]

Hi there,
I am making a simple file manager for educational purposes. And it is interesting to know how can I make context menu to appear only when the user right clicks on QListView widget? Here is the picture for better visualization:
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As you can see the menu appears even when I right click on menuBar (or on statusBar, or on toolBar)

I am adding action items to the context menu like this

void MainWindow::contextMenuEvent(QContextMenuEvent *event) {
    QMenu menu(this);
    menu.addAction(ui->actionOpen);
    menu.addAction(ui->actionNew_Directory);
    menu.addSeparator();
    menu.addAction(ui->actionCompress);
    menu.addAction(ui->actionDecompress);
    menu.addSeparator();
    menu.addAction(ui->actionRemove_Object);

    menu.exec(event->globalPos());
}

Thanks :)

[Chris Kawa]

@Aram said:

void MainWindow::contextMenuEvent(...

That's the problem. You want the context menu on list view but you're handling it on the main window. Subclass the QListView and handle the event there:

void YourQListViewSubclass::contextMenuEvent(QContextMenuEvent *event) {
...

[Aram]

@Chris-Kawa thanks for your answer!

[giupigna]

you don't have to subclass the ListView. You can add Actions on the widgets.
See addAction(QAction *action)