<![CDATA[How to do something while a QAction in the toolbar is kept pressed?]]>I want to show the user a custom menu that I made while the user presses a QAction button in the toolbar. As soon as the user releases this button, I want the menu to disappear. I am able to handle the menu part, but I am confused about how to manage the pressed and released aspect of the QAction, since QAction does not have these attributes.

Just to be clear, I want to do some action when the mouse click is down, and as soon as the mouse click is up, I want to stop that action.

Thanks.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/136915/how-to-do-something-while-a-qaction-in-the-toolbar-is-kept-pressedRSS for NodeSat, 13 Jun 2026 20:58:47 GMTWed, 01 Jun 2022 03:12:54 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to do something while a QAction in the toolbar is kept pressed? on Thu, 02 Jun 2022 06:36:21 GMT]]>@BigBen Also check out eventFilter. Here's a link to the documentation.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/716222https://forum.qt.io/post/716222Thu, 02 Jun 2022 06:36:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to do something while a QAction in the toolbar is kept pressed? on Thu, 02 Jun 2022 03:15:14 GMT]]>@BigBen You can get the QToolButton associated with the QAction using widgetForAction from your QToolBar widget

Python

toolbar.widgetForAction(your_action)

Otherwise, you could try intercepting mousePressEvent and mouseReleaseEvent.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/716210https://forum.qt.io/post/716210Thu, 02 Jun 2022 03:15:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to do something while a QAction in the toolbar is kept pressed? on Thu, 02 Jun 2022 02:56:50 GMT]]>Hi,

Thanks for the answer. QToolButton supports menus, but the buttons I have in my toolbar are QAction not QToolButton. Can I add a QToolButton to the toolbar too?
If so, how?

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/716208https://forum.qt.io/post/716208Thu, 02 Jun 2022 02:56:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to do something while a QAction in the toolbar is kept pressed? on Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:24:16 GMT]]>Hi,

QToolButton already supports menus.

What do you want to achieve with your custom implementation ?

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/716186https://forum.qt.io/post/716186Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:24:16 GMT