Question

With the sample code below (heavily influenced from here) the right-click context menu is not really aligned properly.

As can be seen in the screenshot, the resulting menu is above the mouse cursor quite a bit. I would expect the menu’s top left corner to be exactly aligned with the mouse pointer.

Is there any way to adjust for this?

import re
import operator
import os
import sys
import sqlite3
import cookies
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

def main():
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    w = MyWindow()
    w.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

class MyWindow(QWidget):
    def __init__(self, *args):
        QWidget.__init__(self, *args)

        self.tabledata = [('apple', 'red', 'small'),
                          ('apple', 'red', 'medium'),
                          ('apple', 'green', 'small'),
                          ('banana', 'yellow', 'large')]
        self.header = ['fruit', 'color', 'size']

        # create table
        self.createTable()

        # layout
        layout = QVBoxLayout()
        layout.addWidget(self.tv)
        self.setLayout(layout)

    def popup(self, pos):
        for i in self.tv.selectionModel().selection().indexes():
            print i.row(), i.column()
        menu = QMenu()
        quitAction = menu.addAction("Quit")
        action = menu.exec_(self.mapToGlobal(pos))
        if action == quitAction:
            qApp.quit()

    def createTable(self):
        # create the view
        self.tv = QTableView()
        self.tv.setStyleSheet("gridline-color: rgb(191, 191, 191)")

        self.tv.setContextMenuPolicy(Qt.CustomContextMenu)
        self.tv.customContextMenuRequested.connect(self.popup)

        # set the table model
        tm = MyTableModel(self.tabledata, self.header, self)
        self.tv.setModel(tm)

        # set the minimum size
        self.tv.setMinimumSize(400, 300)

        # hide grid
        self.tv.setShowGrid(True)

        # set the font
        font = QFont("Calibri (Body)", 12)
        self.tv.setFont(font)

        # hide vertical header
        vh = self.tv.verticalHeader()
        vh.setVisible(False)

        # set horizontal header properties
        hh = self.tv.horizontalHeader()
        hh.setStretchLastSection(True)

        # set column width to fit contents
        self.tv.resizeColumnsToContents()

        # set row height
        nrows = len(self.tabledata)
        for row in xrange(nrows):
            self.tv.setRowHeight(row, 18)

        # enable sorting
        self.tv.setSortingEnabled(True)

        return self.tv

class MyTableModel(QAbstractTableModel):
    def __init__(self, datain, headerdata, parent=None, *args):
        """ datain: a list of lists
            headerdata: a list of strings
        """
        QAbstractTableModel.__init__(self, parent, *args)
        self.arraydata = datain
        self.headerdata = headerdata

    def rowCount(self, parent):
        return len(self.arraydata)

    def columnCount(self, parent):
        return len(self.arraydata[0])

    def data(self, index, role):
        if not index.isValid():
            return QVariant()
        elif role != Qt.DisplayRole:
            return QVariant()
        return QVariant(self.arraydata[index.row()][index.column()])

    def headerData(self, col, orientation, role):
        if orientation == Qt.Horizontal and role == Qt.DisplayRole:
            return QVariant(self.headerdata[col])
        return QVariant()

    def sort(self, Ncol, order):
        """Sort table by given column number.
        """
        self.emit(SIGNAL("layoutAboutToBeChanged()"))
        self.arraydata = sorted(self.arraydata, key=operator.itemgetter(Ncol))
        if order == Qt.DescendingOrder:
            self.arraydata.reverse()
        self.emit(SIGNAL("layoutChanged()"))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Answer 1

This was a bit tricky, but following the subclassing example in this wiki example and replacing

  15         action = menu.exec_(self.mapToGlobal(event.pos()))

with

  15         action = menu.exec_(event.globalPos())

will make the popup menu’s top left corner match the mouse click exactly.