QToolButton with QMenu stops working after switching tabs (QWebEngineView involved)

soumyaniljana

Hi, thanks for the response,
I tested it by explicitly deleting QWebEngineView when switching tabs. The qDebug() output confirms the deletion is happening, but issue still persists. Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Axel Spoerl

Can you boil this down to a small, compilable reproducer, which can be posted here?
A web view is a complex beast. I've used it myself in a widgets application, in a dialog as a toplevel window of its own. At least there, it doesn't cause any trouble. I'll gladly have a look. Maybe it's even a bug, who knows.

soumyaniljana

Hi, @Axel-Spoerl
Thanks for your willingness to take a look!

Unfortunately, I’m currently unable to post the code or zip file directly here as I don't currently have the privileges to upload a .zip file directly and it’s being flagged as spam due to its length or format. To work around that, I’ve uploaded the minimal, compilable reproducer as a GitHub Gist instead:
https://gist.github.com/sjana0/9a022d41d3b050236779fdfba2a10088
The project is self-contained and demonstrates the issue where the QToolButton menu stops opening after switching tabs with a QWebEngineView.

Please let me know if you run into any issues running it or need a different format. I appreciate your help!

Axel Spoerl

Hi @soumyaniljana,

please post the code here explicitly, using the </> code tags. No zip files, no links.
The community should see the code and not be referred to an external page, that might change over time.
Cheers
Axel

soumyaniljana

Hi @Axel-Spoerl ,

Thanks again for your patience and help.

I've been trying to post the minimal reproducible example using the </> code formatting as requested, but unfortunately, my post keeps getting flagged by Akismet as spam — even though I'm not including any links or external files. It seems the amount of code or structure might be triggering it.

Would it be alright if I posted the code across a few smaller replies in the thread instead? Or if there’s another approach you’d recommend, I’d be happy to follow that.

Really appreciate your time and support.

Kind regards,
soumyanil

soumyaniljana

This post is deleted!

Axel Spoerl

@soumyaniljana That looks incomplete.

soumyaniljana

#include "mainwindow.h"
MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent)
    : QMainWindow(parent),
      webView(new QWebEngineView),
      menuButton(new QToolButton),
      tabs(new QTabWidget)
{
    // Browser Tab
    QWidget *browserTab = new QWidget;
    QVBoxLayout *browserLayout = new QVBoxLayout(browserTab);
    browserLayout->addWidget(webView);


	// if you dont initialize the webView, the QMenu dropdown works.
	// and same if you switch tab without initializing it and come back
	// vocabulary tab it again stops working.
    webView->setUrl(QUrl("https://www.google.com"));

    
	// Vocabulary Tab
    QWidget *vocabTab = new QWidget;
    QVBoxLayout *vocabLayout = new QVBoxLayout(vocabTab);

    QMenu *menu = new QMenu;
    menu->addAction("Edit");
    menu->addAction("Delete");

    menuButton->setText("Menu");
    menuButton->setMenu(menu);
    menuButton->setPopupMode(QToolButton::InstantPopup);

    vocabLayout->addWidget(menuButton);

    // Add tabs to QTabWidget
    tabs->addTab(vocabTab, "Vocabulary");
    tabs->addTab(browserTab, "Browser");

    // Set central widget
    setCentralWidget(tabs);
}

soumyaniljana

#pragma once

#include <QMainWindow>

class QWebEngineView;
class QToolButton;
class QTabWidget;

class MainWindow : public QMainWindow {
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    MainWindow(QWidget *parent = nullptr);

private:
    QWebEngineView *webView;
    QToolButton *menuButton;
    QTabWidget *tabs;
};

soumyaniljana

Please include QTabWidget, QWebEngineView, QVBoxLayout, QToolButton, QMenu, QWidget
And that should now be the complete minimal example! Please let me know if it’s still missing anything or if there’s anything you'd like me to simplify further. I really appreciate your time and guidance.

Kind regards,
Soumyanil

soumyaniljana

Hi @Axel-Spoerl,
Just checking in to see if you had a chance to look at the code I posted earlier. I'd really appreciate any insights or suggestions when you get a moment.
Thanks again for your time and guidance.
Regards,
Soumyanil