Prevent a QMenu from closing when one of its QAction is triggered

Question

I\'m using a QMenu as context menu. This menu is filled with QActions. One of these QActions is checkable, and I\'d like to be able to check/uncheck it without closing the c

Answer 1

This is my solution:

    // this menu don't hide, if action in actions_with_showed_menu is chosen.
    class showed_menu : public QMenu
    {
      Q_OBJECT
    public:
      showed_menu (QWidget *parent = 0) : QMenu (parent) { is_ignore_hide = false; }
      showed_menu (const QString &title, QWidget *parent = 0) : QMenu (title, parent) { is_ignore_hide = false; }
      void add_action_with_showed_menu (const QAction *action) { actions_with_showed_menu.insert (action); }

      virtual void setVisible (bool visible)
      {
        if (is_ignore_hide)
          {
            is_ignore_hide = false;
            return;
          }
        QMenu::setVisible (visible);
      }

      virtual void mouseReleaseEvent (QMouseEvent *e)
      {
        const QAction *action = actionAt (e->pos ());
        if (action)
          if (actions_with_showed_menu.contains (action))
            is_ignore_hide = true;
        QMenu::mouseReleaseEvent (e);
      }
    private:
      // clicking on this actions don't close menu 
      QSet  actions_with_showed_menu;
      bool is_ignore_hide;
    };

    showed_menu *menu = new showed_menu ();
    QAction *action = menu->addAction (new QAction (menu));
    menu->add_action_with_showed_menu (action);