I'm having trouble understanding the shortcut functionality of a QAction added to a QMenu. Lets start with an example:
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
import sys
class TestApp(QtGui.QMainWindow):
def __init__(self, *args):
super(TestApp, self).__init__(*args)
#create contex menu
self.menu = QtGui.QMenu(self)
self.menu.addAction("testEntry", self.action, "CTRL+T")
self.setContextMenuPolicy(QtCore.Qt.CustomContextMenu)
self.customContextMenuRequested.connect(self.execContextMenu)
def execContextMenu(self, point):
self.menu.exec_(self.mapToGlobal(point))
def action(self):
print 'action called!'
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
win = TestApp()
win.show()
app.exec_()
I would expect action() to be called either when the users presses "Ctrl+T" or when "Ctrl+T" is pressed after the context menu was invoked. But nothing happens when I press the shortcut. However when I add the QAction to the TestApp
act = self.menu.addAction("testEntry", self.action, "CTRL+T")
self.addAction(act)
it works (although it doesn't when the context menu is open). So what am I doing wrong?
I'm using PyQt4 on an OSX 10.6
Thanks for any help ;)
