[QScintilla] Extending QScintilla context menu

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Tue May 10 16:23:24 BST 2011


On Thu, 5 May 2011 20:56:46 -0500, Christopher Pow
<christopher_pow at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to extend the context menu of my QScintilla
> widget.  Before I switched to QScintilla I was using a QPlainTextEdit
which
> provides a method "createStandardContextMenu" that you can use in your
> contextMenuEvent.  Since it returns a QMenu it's very easy to
.addAction()
> to the returned menu and .exec() it.  I'm curious if there is or will be
> something like this in QScintilla?  If not, what is the recommended way
for
> extending the context menu?

It might be worth looking at how eric4/5 handle it. I'm happy to add
something to make it easier and/or more Qt-like.

Phil


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