No context menu in QWidget when pressing the menu-Key?

[Wurgl]

Solved!

need to call QWidget::setFocusPolicy().

With menu Key, I mean this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key

I have here a neat Linux and the context key works fine in some list & tree views, it works fine inside edit fields (QLineEdit, QTextEdit, QSpinBox, ...) but inside a simple QWidget the context menu opens just with the mouse and not with the keyboard.

#include <QApplication>
#include <QDialog>
#include <QAction>
#include <QBoxLayout>
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  QApplication a(argc, argv);

  QDialog *d = new QDialog();
  QVBoxLayout *l = new QVBoxLayout(d);
  QWidget *w = new QWidget(d);
  l->addWidget(w);
  d->resize(100, 100);
  w->setContextMenuPolicy(Qt::ActionsContextMenu);
  w->addAction(new QAction("Test", w));
  d->show();
  return d->exec();
}

Any hints or ideas?

[A Former User]

Hi! As you marked the thread as solved, may I ask what the your solution was?

[SGaist]

Hi,

@Wieland At the top of the post, @Wurgl mentions adding somewhere a call to setFocusPolicy.

@Wurgl, on a side note, you have a memory leak in your application. You should either keep d on the stack or delete it after you return from exec.

[A Former User]

@SGaist Oh, right. I think I need glasses :))