Accessing a (sub)menu defined in an XmlGui ui.rc file

[Tobias Leupold]

Hi David!

Thanks for the input! In my case, it was only about how to get a pointer to
a menu defined via XML. What Alexander wrote does this very job:

auto *someMenu = qobject_cast<QMenu *>(
    guiFactory()->container("menuId", this));

(for the XML you wrote, calling this with "foo", would return a pointer to
the menu defined via '<Menu name="foo">'.

Am Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2021 23:53:20 CET schrieb David Hurka:
> On Wednesday, January 13, 2021 10:39:48 AM CET Tobias Leupold wrote:
>> Hi list :-)
>> 
>> I have a problem with a KXmlGuiWindow and I honestly can't find respective
>> docs or howtos/tutorials. I hope someone here can help me ...
>
> I faced the same problem... :(
>
>> It's a allegedly basic task: How can I access a submenu (or better: a
>> submenu's QAction) for a menu defined in a ...ui.rc file?
>> 
>> If I define the submenu like so:
>> 
>>     <MenuBar>
>>       <Menu name="foo" > ...
>
> I probably don’t understand properly what you need. But if you 
> want to modify 
> the action which contains the menu "bar", you could use KActionMenu.
>
> Change the ui.rc to:
>
>     <MenuBar>
>       <Menu name="foo" >
>         <Action name="bar"/>
>       </Menu>
>     </MenuBar>
>
> then create a KActionMenu called "bar" in your 
> KActionCollection, set its icon 
> etc., and populate its menu.
>
> Of course this moves UI definition from ui.rc to C++ code, but 
> it looks like 
> you want to modify the menu at runtime.
>
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