Profile menu tooltips

for enabling QMenu to display tooltips I subclassed QMenu and overloaded
    event with a method that actually displays the tooltip, this is done
    in the class QMenuToolTip in the new added file qmenutooltip.py

diff --git a/gui.py b/gui.py
index 17a4e14..dd7e81e 100755 (executable)
--- a/gui.py
+++ b/gui.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import sys
 import os
 from PyQt4 import QtGui
 from PyQt4.QtCore import SIGNAL
 import os
 from PyQt4 import QtGui
 from PyQt4.QtCore import SIGNAL

+from qmenutooltip import QMenuToolTip

 
 from apperror import AppError
 from settings import appconf
 
 from apperror import AppError
 from settings import appconf


@@ -118,7 +119,7 @@ class Gui(QtGui.QDialog):
         action to add a new One """
 
         if reason in (QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon.Trigger, QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon.DoubleClick):
         action to add a new One """
 
         if reason in (QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon.Trigger, QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon.DoubleClick):

-            self.menuProfiles = QtGui.QMenu()
+            self.menuProfiles = QMenuToolTip()

             self.menuProfiles.setTitle("Profiles")
 
             #Get profiles from the ProfHandler embedded in the gui
             self.menuProfiles.setTitle("Profiles")
 
             #Get profiles from the ProfHandler embedded in the gui


@@ -131,6 +132,8 @@ class Gui(QtGui.QDialog):
                 #Using lambda function to pass additional arguments to the function, in this case the path of the profile
                 receiver = lambda pr=pr: self.profileManager.activateProfile(pr)
                 self.connect(menuItem_Profile, SIGNAL('triggered()'), receiver)
                 #Using lambda function to pass additional arguments to the function, in this case the path of the profile
                 receiver = lambda pr=pr: self.profileManager.activateProfile(pr)
                 self.connect(menuItem_Profile, SIGNAL('triggered()'), receiver)

+                #set menu item ToolTip
+                menuItem_Profile.setToolTip("Activate profile: "+pr)

 
                 self.menuProfiles.addAction(menuItem_Profile)
 
 
                 self.menuProfiles.addAction(menuItem_Profile)
 

diff --git a/qmenutooltip.py b/qmenutooltip.py
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..486a3ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qmenutooltip.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/python
+
+from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
+class QMenuToolTip(QtGui.QMenu):
+    """ Implements a QMenu where it is possible to set a ToolTip and display it on mouse hover """
+    def __init__(self, parent=None):
+        QtGui.QMenu.__init__(self, parent)
+
+    def event(self, e):
+        if e.type() == QtCore.QEvent.ToolTip:
+            if not self.activeAction() is None:
+                QtGui.QToolTip.showText(e.globalPos(), self.activeAction().toolTip())
+            else:
+                QtGui.QToolTip.hideText()
+        return QtGui.QMenu.event(self, e)