Add right-click functionality to listwidget in PyQt4

Question

Im trying to add right-click functionality to items in a list widget in PyQt4 using Python. Id like a pop up context menu to show that has buttons and when clicked should perform some function.

How do I get a context menu to pop up when right clicking on each of the items?

RicDavimes · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-14 06:55:18Z

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I have come up with a pretty simple way of doing this and works perfectly. In the ControlMainWindow class add the following to initialise the Context menu policy as CustomeContextMenu where listWidget_extractedmeters will be the name of your QListWidget:

    self.listWidget_extractedmeters.setContextMenuPolicy(QtCore.Qt.CustomContextMenu)
self.listWidget_extractedmeters.connect(self.listWidget_extractedmeters,QtCore.SIGNAL("customContextMenuRequested(QPoint)" ), self.listItemRightClicked)

Then in the ControlMainwindow class the following functions allow you to add context menu items and to call a funtion that performs some functionality:

def listItemRightClicked(self, QPos): 
    self.listMenu= QtGui.QMenu()
    menu_item = self.listMenu.addAction("Remove Item")
    self.connect(menu_item, QtCore.SIGNAL("triggered()"), self.menuItemClicked) 
    parentPosition = self.listWidget_extractedmeters.mapToGlobal(QtCore.QPoint(0, 0))        
    self.listMenu.move(parentPosition + QPos)
    self.listMenu.show() 

def menuItemClicked(self):
    currentItemName=str(self.listWidget_extractedmeters.currentItem().text() )
    print(currentItemName)

edited Jul 14, 2015 at 6:55

answered Jul 13, 2015 at 11:45

RicDavimes

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Cerno Over a year ago

I'd like to add that this is also possible with QtDesigner. You can set the CustomContextMenu policy for the QListWidget and then connect the customContextMenuRequested(QPoint) signal to whatever slot you want.

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