Prevent Menu from closing when clicking a MenuItem in Quick Controls 2

[TheZoc]

Hi,

I've been searching this for a while now, and I couldn't find a solution yet.
I'm trying to create a nested menu, which has multiple MenuItems as children, using Quick Controls v2.
I'm able to do this without any issue.

This menu is supposed to be a set of filters to be applied to my data.
All of this works perfectly, except for one User Experience issue: Whenever a MenuItem is clicked, the whole menu is dismissed. I want the menu to stay open - so the user can select multiple items without needing to navigate through the nested menu - until the user decides to click outside of it, to effectively close it.

How is that possible?

I've tried to search for signal overriding for clicks on QML, but I couldn't find anything about it.
I also saw the C++ code for it, but I couldn't find where the menu is dismissed (I see it's probably on QQuickAbstractButtonPrivate::trigger(), but I couldn't follow the signals).

I'd appreciate if you guys could give me a snippet that can do that, or instructions on how to tackle this problem.

Thanks in advance!

[GrecKo]

I'd say use a Popup instead of a Menu

[TheZoc]

Using a popup would force me to recreate the entire logic of Menu, including nested menus, right?

Is there a simpler way to do that?

If not, can you provide an example of how to implement nested menus using a popup, as a base?