Why does my tearoff menu have a title bar?

Terrence Mitchem

I'm displaying a tearoff menu when a specific button is right-clicked. For some reason, the menu is displaying with a title bar, complete with a close button.

Is this the default behavior? If so, can it be changed?

Code that creates the menu:

SettingsButtonContextMenu = QMenu(btn)

SettingsButtonContextMenu.addAction("&Settings", settings_action)
SettingsButtonContextMenu.addAction("S&ave", save_action)
SettingsButtonContextMenu.addAction("E&xit", exit_action)

Event handler that display the menu:

def mouse_press_handler(button, mb, e):
    print(button.objectName())
    if mb == Qt.MouseButton.RightButton:
        SettingsButtonContextMenu.showTearOffMenu()

JoeCFD

@Terrence-Mitchem said in Why does my tearoff menu have a title bar?:

QMenu

Try
SettingsButtonContextMenu->setWindowFlags( (Qt::WindowFlags)Qt::FramelessWindowHint );

Terrence Mitchem

@JoeCFD said in Why does my tearoff menu have a title bar?:

@Terrence-Mitchem said in Why does my tearoff menu have a title bar?:

QMenu

Try
SettingsButtonContextMenu->setWindowFlags( (Qt::WindowFlags)Qt::FramelessWindowHint );

So here's the proposed new code:

SettingsButtonContextMenu = QMenu(btn)
SettingsButtonContextMenu.setWindowFlags(Qt.WindowType.FramelessWindowHint)

SettingsButtonContextMenu.addAction("&Settings", settings_action)
SettingsButtonContextMenu.addAction("S&ave", save_action)
SettingsButtonContextMenu.addAction("E&xit", exit_action)

This results in the menu being displayed as soon as the main window is:

No idea what's up with that.

JoeCFD

@Terrence-Mitchem
Try the following and use stylesheet to set color for text and background

      # Get the position of the button
        button_pos = self.button.mapToGlobal(self.button.pos())

        # Adjust the position as needed
        menu_position = button_pos + self.button.rect().bottomLeft()

       SettingsButtonContextMenu.showTearOffMenu( menu_position )

SimonSchroeder

Like the documentation says showTearOffMenu() places the menu inside its own widget. It has a title bar so it is permanent and can be moved around. Use popup() instead. This is the right function for context menus.

Terrence Mitchem

@SimonSchroeder

Thank you! This was the solution.