tableview selection broken after dynamically populating context menu structure via createObject

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My Application contains a QML tableview and a (right-click) context menu. With a statically defined (in the QML) menu structure all is working fine.
Now ever since I began to fill the menu structure dynamically with the following function, the tableview no longer allows to select any cell by left-clicking. It is still possible to right-click to select a cell, but with the side effect of popping up the context menu. Also there are some "glictches" that allow a cell to be selected by left-clicking that occur sporadically after closing the context menu.

I derived this code from a different example which I found on StackOverflow. Any ideas what is wrong with the particular piece of code?

function funcSetMenuItems(menuItemNameList) {
    listViewContextMenu.clear()
    for (var menuItemIdx = 0; menuItemIdx < menuItemNameList.length; menuItemIdx++)
    {
        var menuItemName = menuItemNameList[menuItemIdx];
        var menuItemId = menuItemIdx;
        var component = Qt.createComponent("ListViewContextMenuItem.qml");
        var menuItem = component.createObject(listViewContextMenu, {"text": menuItemName, "thisMenuItemId": menuItemId});
        listViewContextMenu.insertItem(menuItemId, menuItem);
    }
}

By selectively commenting various parts, I was able to single out this line as "cause":

var menuItem = component.createObject(listViewContextMenu, {"text": menuItemName, "thisMenuItemId": menuItemId});

If this line is not present, the tableview will work normally. However, no entries in the menu are created either. duh.

For completeness, this is the QML for the created menuitem, and the main QML

ListViewContextMenuItem.qml

import QtQuick 2.1
import QtQuick.Controls 1.3

MenuItem {
    property int thisMenuItemId: 0
    signal itemTriggered(int menuItemId)
    onTriggered: {
        itemTriggered(thisMenuItemId)
    }
}

Main.qml

import QtQuick 2.4
import QtQuick.Controls 1.3
import QtGraphicalEffects 1.0
import SORTFILTERPROXYMODELL 1.0

Item {
    id: root
    anchors.fill: parent

    Connections {
        target: controller
        onDoSetMenuItems: {
            listViewContextMenu.funcSetMenuItems(menuItemNameList)
        }
    }

    Component
    {
        id: columnComponent
        TableViewColumn{width: ( listView.width - 20 ) / 4; delegate: blankColumnDelegate}
    }

    TableView {
        id: listView
        anchors.top: header.bottom; anchors.left: parent.left; anchors.right: parent.right; anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
        model: proxyModelViewer.isSorting ? null : proxyModelViewer
        property bool hasCreatedColumns: false

        onCurrentRowChanged: {
            controller.onSelectionRowChanged(model.getData(listView.currentRow, "objectId"))
            selection.clear()
            selection.select(currentRow)
        }

        SortFilterProxyModell {
            id: proxyModelViewer
            objectName: "proxyModelViewer"
            source: listViewModel

            onSourceChanged:
            {
                if (    (listViewModel != null) ||
                        (typeof(listViewModel) != "undefined"))
                {
                    var roleList = userRoleNames
                    for (var columnIdx = 0; columnIdx < listView.columnCount; columnIdx++)
                    {
                        listView.removeColumn(columnIdx)
                    }
                    for (var roleIdx = 0; roleIdx < roleList.length; roleIdx++)
                   {
                        var role = roleList[roleIdx]
                        console.log("addColumn #" + roleIdx + "role=" + role)
                        var tvc = columnComponent.createObject({"role": role, "title": role})
                        listView.addColumn(tvc)
                    }
                } 
            }
        }

        Component {
            id: rowDelegate
            Rectangle { id: rootRowDelegate
                visible: model ? (styleData.row < proxyModelViewer.count) : false
                MouseArea { id: delegateMouse
                    anchors.fill: parent; anchors.bottomMargin: listView.borderWidth
                    acceptedButtons: Qt.RightButton
                    onPressed: if (mouse.button === Qt.RightButton) {
                                    listViewContextMenu.popup()
                                    listView.currentRow = styleData.row  
                               }
                }
            }
        }

        Component {
            id: blankColumnDelegate
            Item { anchors.fill: parent }
        }
    }

    Menu { id: listViewContextMenu
        function funcSetMenuItems(menuItemNameList) {
            listViewContextMenu.clear()
            for (var menuItemIdx = 0; menuItemIdx < menuItemNameList.length; menuItemIdx++)
            {
                var menuItemName = menuItemNameList[menuItemIdx];
                var menuItemId = menuItemIdx;
                var component = Qt.createComponent("ListViewContextMenuItem.qml");
                var menuItem = component.createObject(listViewContextMenu, {"text": menuItemName, "thisMenuItemId": menuItemId});
                listViewContextMenu.insertItem(menuItemId, menuItem);
            }
        }
//    Old way of initializing the menu
//    MenuItem {
//        text: qsTr('Stuff')
//        onTriggered: controller.doStuff()
//    }
    }
}

Sorry for the wall of text, and thank you for any suggestions.

Fabian