[Okular-devel] Need help adding an action to Menubar - New to KDE libs

[Brian K]

Hi,
If i understand correctly, you're trying to access the actions in the 
menubar from outside the classes that own them? Depending on which 
actions you're interested in exactly you have a few different ways to do 
it. If you got lucky the action you want already has a way to access 
it's state, though I can't think of any that do. If not i can think of 3 
ways you could do it, depending on what you're trying to do. 
KXmlGuiWindow already supports changing the state on the menus, so if 
all you need is something like:
     if quit is enabled
         enable some other actions
     if quit is disabled
         disable those actions
then that would probably be the way to go. If you need something more 
complicated your remaining options would be either accessing the Okular 
instance via dbus, or adding methods to the action creating classes to 
give you the visibility you need.

Brian

On 08/12/2012 01:28 PM, Jaydeep Solanki wrote:
> hi,
> I also wanted to ask if I can access the menubar in other files, like 
> I if I need to check if "Quit" action in File Menu is enabled or not, 
> can that be done ??
>
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Jaydeep Solanki <jaydp17 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jaydp17 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks man,
>     Got what I was asking,
>     http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Architecture/KDE4/XMLGUI_Technology
>     did the work :)
>
>
>
>     On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Brian K <bri.kor.21 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bri.kor.21 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>         Where you need to go to add the actions depends on what
>         exactly you are intending. The Okular program that you use
>         directly is a shell, which uses a kpart, a kind of plugin, to
>         do most of the work. So if your action is specific to Okular,
>         but not the plugin, you would add it to the shell (shell.h,
>         shell.cpp, shell.rc). If on the other hand the action would go
>         in the kpart (plugin) then you would want to modify (part.cpp,
>         part.h, part.rc).
>
>         The reason you've likely been unable to add is that Okular,
>         and the kpart plugin use kxmlgui:
>         http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Architecture/KDE4/XMLGUI_Technology
>         What that means is that you have to modify both the c++ file
>         and a second rc file that defines the menu. The techbase
>         tutorial looks pretty good on basic kpart usage if you're
>         looking for somewhere to start:
>         http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Using_KParts
>
>         Good luck,
>         Brian
>
>
>         On 08/12/2012 11:59 AM, Jaydeep Solanki wrote:
>>         Hi everyone,
>>         I just wanted to know about how to add an action to a Menu.
>>         Like we have Open in the File Menu, suppose if I want to add
>>         something to the File Menu, how to do that.
>>         I experimented with the part.cpp file but all in vain :(
>>
>>         Thanks :),
>>         Jaydeep
>>
>>
>>
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