How to do something while a QAction in the toolbar is kept pressed?

BigBen

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.

SGaist

Hi,

QToolButton already supports menus.

What do you want to achieve with your custom implementation ?

BigBen

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?

adamhendry

@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.

adamhendry

@BigBen Also check out eventFilter. Here's a link to the documentation.