Context Menu Event

[Martinuccia_96]

Hi, everyone.
I have a problem on the context menu Event.
I have a window of this kind:
the white box on the left is a textEdit, while the right one is a QTreeWidget.
I've implemented the context menu in the following way:

void notepad::contextMenuEvent(QContextMenuEvent *)
{
    QMenu submenu;
    QString style="QMenu {border-radius:15px; background-color: white;margin: 2px; border: 1px solid rgb(58, 80, 116); color:  rgb(58, 80, 116);}QMenu::separator {height: 2px;background: rgb(58, 80, 116);margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 5px;}";
    submenu.setStyleSheet(style);
    submenu.addAction(tr("Copy"),this,&notepad::on_actionCopy_triggered);
    submenu.addSeparator();
    submenu.addAction(tr("Cut"),this,&notepad::on_actionCut_triggered);
    submenu.addSeparator();
    submenu.addAction(tr("Paste"),this,&notepad::on_actionPaste_triggered);
    submenu.addSeparator();
    QPoint globalPos=ui->textEdit->cursor().pos();
    submenu.exec(globalPos);
}

Everything works, but I would like to show this menu only If I click with the mouse in the textEdit part and not in the part that shows a list of onlineUsers.
How can I do it?

[JonB]

@Martinuccia_96
You want to place the context menu on the text edit, not on the whole window (notepad?). QTextEdit has its own dedicated context menu support --- see https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextedit.html#contextMenuEvent & https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextedit.html#createStandardContextMenu. The other way would be to test the position of the QContextMenuEvent in your code and only pop up the menu if it's over the QTextEdit, but I think the former approach seems more appropriate/convenient.

[Martinuccia_96]

@JonB Yes, I want to do it.. I didn't use the standardContextMenu because I needed to modify it.

[VRonin]

This is not the usual way to do it, you don't need to reimplement an event.

1. add QMenu *m_textEditContextMenu; as a private member of notepad
2. in the constructor of notepad add

    ui->textEdit->setContextMenuPolicy(Qt::CustomContextMenu);
    connect(ui->textEdit,&QWidget::customContextMenuRequested,this,&notepad::showTextEditContextMenu);

    m_textEditContextMenu=new QMenu(this);
    const auto stylesheet=QStringLiteral("QMenu {border-radius:15px; background-color: white;margin: 2px; border: 1px solid rgb(58, 80, 116); color:  rgb(58, 80, 116);}QMenu::separator {height: 2px;background: rgb(58, 80, 116);margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 5px;}");
    m_textEditContextMenu->setStyleSheet(stylesheet);
    m_textEditContextMenu->addAction(tr("Copy"),this,&notepad::on_actionCopy_triggered);
    m_textEditContextMenu->addSeparator();
    m_textEditContextMenu->addAction(tr("Cut"),this,&notepad::on_actionCut_triggered);
    m_textEditContextMenu->addSeparator();
    m_textEditContextMenu->addAction(tr("Paste"),this,&notepad::on_actionPaste_triggered);
    m_textEditContextMenu->addSeparator();

3. create a private slot

void showTextEditContextMenu(const QPoint &pos){
m_textEditContextMenu->popup(ui->textEdit->mapToGlobal(pos));
}

[Martinuccia_96]

THANKS SO MUCH!