QSystemTrayIcon handle left and right click separately? - c++

Question

I have a class called StatusIcon that extends QSystemTrayIcon. I want to set it up so right click opens the context menu and left click opens a window.
Currently the default behaviour seems to be both left and right click open the context menu.
I need to find a way to block the left click and run my own code instead.
From the documentation it looks like this could be achieved using eventFilter I have setup an eventFilter method on StatusIcon with a qdebug in it. This doesn't get called with a right or left click.
I installed it using a line of code like:
this->installEventFilter(this)
I'm wondering if its not working as its already overriding the virtual method as I've got QSystemTrayIcon as the super class.
Does anyone know why eventFilter is not being called?
Could anyone think of a way to achieve this functionality?

Answer 1

You don't need eventFilter. For left click:
//somewhere in constructor
connect(tray,SIGNAL(activated(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason)),this,SLOT(showHide(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason)));
//...
void MainWindow::showHide(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason r)
{
if (r == QSystemTrayIcon::Trigger)
{
if (!this->isVisible()) {
this->show();
} else {
this->hide();
}
}
}
For menu, just use setContextMenu():
QMenu *menu = new QMenu(this);
//for example
menu->addAction(showHideAct);
menu->addAction(optionAct);
menu->addAction(infoAct);
menu->addSeparator();
menu->addAction(quitAct);
tray = new QSystemTrayIcon();
tray->setIcon(QIcon("://data/tray.png"));
tray->setContextMenu(menu);//important method for you
tray->show();