Add session context menu to unused areas of the full view tab for shorter mouse distances

qtgui/mainwindow.py

@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
         self.ui =  Ui_MainWindow()
         self.ui.setupUi(self)
         self.fPalBlue = setPaletteAndFont(self.qtApp)
+        assert self.ui.tabbyCat.currentIndex() == 0, self.ui.tabbyCat.currentIndex() # this is critical. If you left the Qt Designer with the wrong tab open this is the error that happens. It will trigger the tab changed later that will go wrong because setup is not complete yet and you'll get AttributeError
 
         self.ui.mainPageSwitcher.setCurrentIndex(0) #1 is messageLabel 0 is the tab widget
 
@@ -146,6 +147,13 @@ class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
         self.connectMenu()
         self.recentlyOpenedSessions = RecentlyOpenedSessions()
 
+
+        #self.ui.stack_loaded_session is only visible when there is a loaded session and the full view tab is active
+        #we link the session context menu to the session menu menu.
+        self.ui.stack_loaded_session.setContextMenuPolicy(QtCore.Qt.CustomContextMenu)        
+        self.ui.stack_loaded_session.customContextMenuRequested.connect(self.customContextMenu)
+        
+        
         #Api Callbacks
         api.callbacks.sessionClosed.append(self.reactCallback_sessionClosed)
         api.callbacks.sessionOpenReady.append(self.reactCallback_sessionOpen)
@@ -369,6 +377,11 @@ class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
         if widget.success:
             self.updateProgramDatabase()
 
+    def customContextMenu(self, qpoint):
+        pos = QtGui.QCursor.pos()
+        pos.setY(pos.y() + 5)
+        self.ui.menuSession.exec_(pos)
+
     def storeWindowSettings(self):
         """Window state is not saved in the real save file. That would lead to portability problems
         between computers, like different screens and resolutions.

qtgui/opensessioncontroller.py

@@ -129,10 +129,12 @@ class ClientTable(object):
         self.sortByColumn = 0 #by name
         self.sortAscending = 0 # Qt::SortOrder which is 0 for ascending and 1 for descending
         self.clientsTreeWidget = self.mainWindow.ui.loadedSessionClients
+        
+        self.clientsTreeWidget.setContextMenuPolicy(QtCore.Qt.CustomContextMenu)        
+        self.clientsTreeWidget.customContextMenuRequested.connect(self.clientsContextMenu)
+
         self.clientsTreeWidget.setIconSize(iconSize)
-        self.clientsTreeWidget.setContextMenuPolicy(QtCore.Qt.CustomContextMenu)
         self.clientsTreeWidget.setEditTriggers(QtWidgets.QAbstractItemView.NoEditTriggers) #We only allow explicit editing.
-        self.clientsTreeWidget.customContextMenuRequested.connect(self.clientsContextMenu)
         self.clientsTreeWidgetColumns = ("reportedName", "label", "lastStatus", "visible", "dirty", "clientId") #basically an enum
         self.clientHeaderLabels = [
             QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate("OpenSession", "Name"),
@@ -177,17 +179,20 @@ class ClientTable(object):
         self.clientsTreeWidget.clear()
 
     def clientsContextMenu(self, qpoint):
-        """Reuses the menubar menu"""
+        """Reuses the menubar menus"""
+        pos = QtGui.QCursor.pos()
+        pos.setY(pos.y() + 5)
+        
         item = self.clientsTreeWidget.itemAt(qpoint)
-        if not type(item) is ClientItem:
+        if not type(item) is ClientItem:            
+            self.mainWindow.ui.menuSession.exec_(pos)
             return
+            
         if not item is self.clientsTreeWidget.currentItem():
             #Some mouse combinations can lead to getting a different context menu than the clicked item.
             self.clientsTreeWidget.setCurrentItem(item)
 
-        menu = self.mainWindow.ui.menuClientNameId
-        pos = QtGui.QCursor.pos()
-        pos.setY(pos.y() + 5)
+        menu = self.mainWindow.ui.menuClientNameId        
         menu.exec_(pos)