PySide6.QtWidgets.QMenu

class QMenu

The QMenu class provides a menu widget for use in menu bars, context menus, and other popup menus. More…

Inheritance diagram of PySide6.QtWidgets.QMenu

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Properties

Methods

Virtual methods

Signals

Static functions

Note

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Detailed Description

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A menu widget is a selection menu. It can be either a pull-down menu in a menu bar or a standalone context menu. Pull-down menus are shown by the menu bar when the user clicks on the respective item or presses the specified shortcut key. Use addMenu() to insert a menu into a menu bar. Context menus are usually invoked by some special keyboard key or by right-clicking. They can be executed either asynchronously with popup() or synchronously with exec() . Menus can also be invoked in response to button presses; these are just like context menus except for how they are invoked.

Actions

A menu consists of a list of action items. Actions are added with the addAction(), addActions() and insertAction() functions. An action is represented vertically and rendered by QStyle . In addition, actions can have a text label, an optional icon drawn on the very left side, and shortcut key sequence such as “Ctrl+X”.

The existing actions held by a menu can be found with actions() .

There are four kinds of action items: separators, actions that show a submenu, widgets, and actions that perform an action. Separators are inserted with addSeparator() , submenus with addMenu() , and all other items are considered action items.

When inserting action items you usually specify a receiver and a slot. The receiver will be notified whenever the item is triggered(). In addition, QMenu provides two signals, triggered() and hovered() , which signal the QAction that was triggered from the menu.

You clear a menu with clear() and remove individual action items with removeAction() .

A QMenu can also provide a tear-off menu. A tear-off menu is a top-level window that contains a copy of the menu. This makes it possible for the user to “tear off” frequently used menus and position them in a convenient place on the screen. If you want this functionality for a particular menu, insert a tear-off handle with setTearOffEnabled() . When using tear-off menus, bear in mind that the concept isn’t typically used on Microsoft Windows so some users may not be familiar with it. Consider using a QToolBar instead.

Widgets can be inserted into menus with the QWidgetAction class. Instances of this class are used to hold widgets, and are inserted into menus with the addAction() overload that takes a QAction. If the QWidgetAction fires the triggered() signal, the menu will close.

Warning

To make QMenu visible on the screen, exec() or popup() should be used instead of show() or setVisible() . To hide or disable the menu in the menubar, or in another menu to which it was added as a submenu, use the respective properties of menuAction() instead.

QMenu on macOS with Qt Build Against Cocoa

QMenu can be inserted only once in a menu/menubar. Subsequent insertions will have no effect or will result in a disabled menu item.

See the Menus example for an example of how to use QMenuBar and QMenu in your application.

Important inherited functions: addAction(), removeAction() , clear() , addSeparator() , and addMenu() .

See also

QMenuBar Menus Example

Note

Properties can be used directly when from __feature__ import true_property is used or via accessor functions otherwise.

property iconᅟ: QIcon

This property holds The icon of the menu.

This is equivalent to the QAction::icon property of the menuAction() .

By default, if no icon is explicitly set, this property contains a null icon.

Access functions:
property separatorsCollapsibleᅟ: bool

This property holds whether consecutive separators should be collapsed.

This property specifies whether consecutive separators in the menu should be visually collapsed to a single one. Separators at the beginning or the end of the menu are also hidden.

By default, this property is true.

Access functions:
property tearOffEnabledᅟ: bool

This property holds whether the menu supports being torn off.

When true, the menu contains a special tear-off item (often shown as a dashed line at the top of the menu) that creates a copy of the menu when it is triggered.

This “torn-off” copy lives in a separate window. It contains the same menu items as the original menu, with the exception of the tear-off handle.

By default, this property is false.

Access functions:
property titleᅟ: str

This property holds The title of the menu.

This is equivalent to the QAction::text property of the menuAction() .

By default, this property contains an empty string.

Access functions:
property toolTipsVisibleᅟ: bool

This property holds whether tooltips of menu actions should be visible.

This property specifies whether action menu entries show their tooltip.

By default, this property is false.

Access functions:
__init__([parent=None])
Parameters:

parent – QWidget

Constructs a menu with parent parent.

Although a popup menu is always a top-level widget, if a parent is passed the popup menu will be deleted when that parent is destroyed (as with any other QObject).

__init__(title[, parent=None])
Parameters:

Constructs a menu with a title and a parent.

Although a popup menu is always a top-level widget, if a parent is passed the popup menu will be deleted when that parent is destroyed (as with any other QObject).

See also

title

aboutToHide()

This signal is emitted just before the menu is hidden from the user.

aboutToShow()

This signal is emitted just before the menu is shown to the user.

actionAt(arg__1)
Parameters:

arg__1 – QPoint

Return type:

QAction

Returns the item at pt; returns None if there is no item there.

actionGeometry(arg__1)
Parameters:

arg__1 – QAction

Return type:

QRect

Returns the geometry of action act.

activeAction()
Return type:

QAction

Returns the currently highlighted action, or None if no action is currently highlighted.

addAction(text, arg__2[, shortcut=0])
Parameters:
addAction(arg__1, text, arg__3[, shortcut=0])
Parameters:
addAction(text, receiver, member, shortcut)
Parameters:
Return type:

QAction

Note

This function is deprecated.

Use QWidget::addAction(text, shortcut, receiver, member) instead.

addAction(icon, text, receiver, member, shortcut)
Parameters:
Return type:

QAction

Note

This function is deprecated.

Use addAction (icon, text, shortcut, receiver, member) instead.

addMenu(menu)
Parameters:

menu – QMenu

Return type:

QAction

This convenience function adds menu as a submenu to this menu. It returns menu's menuAction() . This menu does not take ownership of menu.

addMenu(title)
Parameters:

title – str

Return type:

QMenu

Appends a new QMenu with title to the menu. The menu takes ownership of the menu. Returns the new menu.

addMenu(icon, title)
Parameters:

  • icon – QIcon

  • title – str

Return type:

QMenu

Appends a new QMenu with icon and title to the menu. The menu takes ownership of the menu. Returns the new menu.

addSection(text)
Parameters:

text – str

Return type:

QAction

This convenience function creates a new section action, i.e. an action with QAction::isSeparator() returning true but also having text hint, and adds the new action to this menu’s list of actions. It returns the newly created action.

The rendering of the hint is style and platform dependent. Widget styles can use the text information in the rendering for sections, or can choose to ignore it and render sections like simple separators.

QMenu takes ownership of the returned QAction.

See also

addAction()

addSection(icon, text)
Parameters:

  • icon – QIcon

  • text – str

Return type:

QAction

This convenience function creates a new section action, i.e. an action with QAction::isSeparator() returning true but also having text and icon hints, and adds the new action to this menu’s list of actions. It returns the newly created action.

The rendering of the hints is style and platform dependent. Widget styles can use the text and icon information in the rendering for sections, or can choose to ignore them and render sections like simple separators.

QMenu takes ownership of the returned QAction.

See also

addAction()

addSeparator()
Return type:

QAction

This convenience function creates a new separator action, i.e. an action with QAction::isSeparator() returning true, and adds the new action to this menu’s list of actions. It returns the newly created action.

QMenu takes ownership of the returned QAction.

See also

addAction()

clear()

Removes all the menu’s actions. Actions owned by the menu and not shown in any other widget are deleted.

See also

removeAction()

columnCount()
Return type:

int

If a menu does not fit on the screen it lays itself out so that it does fit. It is style dependent what layout means (for example, on Windows it will use multiple columns).

This functions returns the number of columns necessary.

defaultAction()
Return type:

QAction

Returns the current default action.

exec()
Return type:

QAction

Warning

This section contains snippets that were automatically translated from C++ to Python and may contain errors.

Executes this menu synchronously.

This is equivalent to exec(pos()).

This returns the triggered QAction in either the popup menu or one of its submenus, or None if no item was triggered (normally because the user pressed Esc).

In most situations you’ll want to specify the position yourself, for example, the current mouse position:

exec(QCursor.pos())

or aligned to a widget:

exec(somewidget.mapToGlobal(QPoint(0,0)))

or in reaction to a QMouseEvent *e:

exec(e.globalPosition().toPoint())
exec(pos[, at=None])
Parameters:
Return type:

QAction

Warning

This section contains snippets that were automatically translated from C++ to Python and may contain errors.

This is an overloaded function.

Executes this menu synchronously.

Pops up the menu so that the action action will be at the specified global position p. To translate a widget’s local coordinates into global coordinates, use mapToGlobal() .

This returns the triggered QAction in either the popup menu or one of its submenus, or None if no item was triggered (normally because the user pressed Esc).

Note that all signals are emitted as usual. If you connect a QAction to a slot and call the menu’s exec() , you get the result both via the signal-slot connection and in the return value of exec() .

Common usage is to position the menu at the current mouse position:

exec(QCursor.pos())

or aligned to a widget:

exec(somewidget.mapToGlobal(QPoint(0, 0)))

or in reaction to a QMouseEvent *e:

exec(e.globalPosition().toPoint())

When positioning a menu with exec() or popup() , bear in mind that you cannot rely on the menu’s current size() . For performance reasons, the menu adapts its size only when necessary. So in many cases, the size before and after the show is different. Instead, use sizeHint() which calculates the proper size depending on the menu’s current contents.

static exec(actions, pos[, at=None[, parent=None]])
Parameters:
Return type:

QAction

Warning

This section contains snippets that were automatically translated from C++ to Python and may contain errors.

This is an overloaded function.

Executes a menu synchronously.

The menu’s actions are specified by the list of actions. The menu will pop up so that the specified action, at, appears at global position pos. If at is not specified then the menu appears at position pos. parent is the menu’s parent widget; specifying the parent will provide context when pos alone is not enough to decide where the menu should go (e.g., with multiple desktops or when the parent is embedded in QGraphicsView ).

The function returns the triggered QAction in either the popup menu or one of its submenus, or None if no item was triggered (normally because the user pressed Esc).

This is equivalent to:

menu = QMenu()
at = actions[0] # Assumes actions is not empty
for a in actions:
    menu.addAction(a)
menu.exec(pos, at)

See also

popup() mapToGlobal()

exec_()
Return type:

QAction

exec_(arg__1[, action=None])
Parameters:
Return type:

QAction

exec_(arg__1, arg__2[, at=None[, parent=None]])
Parameters:
Return type:

QAction

hideTearOffMenu()

This function will forcibly hide the torn off menu making it disappear from the user’s desktop.

hovered(action)
Parameters:

action – QAction

This signal is emitted when a menu action is highlighted; action is the action that caused the signal to be emitted.

Often this is used to update status information.

icon()
Return type:

QIcon

See also

setIcon()

Getter of property iconᅟ .

initStyleOption(option, action)
Parameters:

Initialize option with the values from this menu and information from action. This method is useful for subclasses when they need a QStyleOptionMenuItem , but don’t want to fill in all the information themselves.

insertMenu(before, menu)
Parameters:
Return type:

QAction

This convenience function inserts menu before action before and returns the menus menuAction() .

insertSection(before, text)
Parameters:
Return type:

QAction

This convenience function creates a new title action, i.e. an action with QAction::isSeparator() returning true but also having text hint. The function inserts the newly created action into this menu’s list of actions before action before and returns it.

The rendering of the hint is style and platform dependent. Widget styles can use the text information in the rendering for sections, or can choose to ignore it and render sections like simple separators.

QMenu takes ownership of the returned QAction.

insertSection(before, icon, text)
Parameters:
Return type:

QAction

This convenience function creates a new title action, i.e. an action with QAction::isSeparator() returning true but also having text and icon hints. The function inserts the newly created action into this menu’s list of actions before action before and returns it.

The rendering of the hints is style and platform dependent. Widget styles can use the text and icon information in the rendering for sections, or can choose to ignore them and render sections like simple separators.

QMenu takes ownership of the returned QAction.

insertSeparator(before)
Parameters:

before – QAction

Return type:

QAction

This convenience function creates a new separator action, i.e. an action with QAction::isSeparator() returning true. The function inserts the newly created action into this menu’s list of actions before action before and returns it.

QMenu takes ownership of the returned QAction.

isEmpty()
Return type:

bool

Returns true if there are no visible actions inserted into the menu, false otherwise.

See also

actions()

isTearOffEnabled()
Return type:

bool

Getter of property tearOffEnabledᅟ .

isTearOffMenuVisible()
Return type:

bool

When a menu is torn off a second menu is shown to display the menu contents in a new window. When the menu is in this mode and the menu is visible returns true; otherwise false.

menuAction()
Return type:

QAction

Returns the action associated with this menu.

static menuInAction(action)
Parameters:

action – QAction

Return type:

QMenu

Returns the menu contained by action, or None if action does not contain a menu.

In widget applications, actions that contain menus can be used to create menu items with submenus, or inserted into toolbars to create buttons with popup menus.

popup(pos[, at=None])
Parameters:

Displays the menu so that the action atAction will be at the specified global position p. To translate a widget’s local coordinates into global coordinates, use mapToGlobal() .

When positioning a menu with exec() or popup(), bear in mind that you cannot rely on the menu’s current size() . For performance reasons, the menu adapts its size only when necessary, so in many cases, the size before and after the show is different. Instead, use sizeHint() which calculates the proper size depending on the menu’s current contents.

separatorsCollapsible()
Return type:

bool

See also

setSeparatorsCollapsible()

Getter of property separatorsCollapsibleᅟ .

setActiveAction(act)
Parameters:

act – QAction

Sets the currently highlighted action to act.

See also

activeAction()

setDefaultAction(arg__1)
Parameters:

arg__1 – QAction

This sets the default action to act. The default action may have a visual cue, depending on the current QStyle . A default action usually indicates what will happen by default when a drop occurs.

See also

defaultAction()

setIcon(icon)
Parameters:

icon – QIcon

See also

icon()

Setter of property iconᅟ .

setSeparatorsCollapsible(collapse)
Parameters:

collapse – bool

See also

separatorsCollapsible()

Setter of property separatorsCollapsibleᅟ .

setTearOffEnabled(arg__1)
Parameters:

arg__1 – bool

See also

isTearOffEnabled()

Setter of property tearOffEnabledᅟ .

setTitle(title)
Parameters:

title – str

See also

title()

Setter of property titleᅟ .

setToolTipsVisible(visible)
Parameters:

visible – bool

See also

toolTipsVisible()

Setter of property toolTipsVisibleᅟ .

showTearOffMenu()

This is an overloaded function.

This function will forcibly show the torn off menu making it appear on the user’s desktop under the mouse currsor.

showTearOffMenu(pos)
Parameters:

pos – QPoint

This function will forcibly show the torn off menu making it appear on the user’s desktop at the specified global position pos.

title()
Return type:

str

See also

setTitle()

Getter of property titleᅟ .

toolTipsVisible()
Return type:

bool

See also

setToolTipsVisible()

Getter of property toolTipsVisibleᅟ .

triggered(action)
Parameters:

action – QAction

This signal is emitted when an action in this menu is triggered.

action is the action that caused the signal to be emitted.

Normally, you connect each menu action’s triggered() signal to its own custom slot, but sometimes you will want to connect several actions to a single slot, for example, when you have a group of closely related actions, such as “left justify”, “center”, “right justify”.

Note

This signal is emitted for the main parent menu in a hierarchy. Hence, only the parent menu needs to be connected to a slot; sub-menus need not be connected.

See also

hovered() triggered()