TextArea with context menu

Padlock

I got a TextArea and I'm trying to implement an edit context menu (Cut, Copy, Paste, etc). The menu has a function opnMnu () that calls its own popup () function.

Menu {
        id: editMenu
        function opnMnu ()
        {
	    popup()
        }
        MenuItem {
            ...
        }
        ...
}

This is how it's opened:

			TextArea.flickable: TextArea {
				focus: true
				wrapMode: TextEdit.Wrap
				verticalAlignment: TextEdit.AlignTop
				horizontalAlignment: TextEdit.AlignLeft
				selectByMouse: true
				selectByKeyboard: true
				onPressAndHold: {
					editMenu.opnMnu()
				}
				MouseArea {
					anchors.fill: parent
					acceptedButtons: Qt.RightButton
					preventStealing: true
					onClicked: {
						switch (mouse.button)
						{
							case Qt.RightButton:
								editMenu.opnMnu()
								break;
						}
					}
				}
			}

Works great, with only one caveat. When text was selected before the context menu opens this selection disappears. I think that's because the TextArea loses its focus, or maybe because the mouse click deselects it.

How can I keep the selection (and visible) when the context menu is opened?

Padlock

Found it :-)

This was missing:

persistentSelection: true

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-textedit.html#persistentSelection-prop