I'm trying to build a menu with some items that are not interactive in QT. I subclass QMenu in my MyCustomMenuClass. I'm trying to add section titles to my menu so that it's clearer for the user.
For example, it should look like this:
My section 1 title
Action 1
Action 2
Action 3
My second section title
Action 4
Action 5
The issue is that the section titles always react to the mouse, but I would like them to not react to a mouse over so that it would be prettier. Any idea on how to do it?
From the QMenu documentation:
There are four kinds of action items: separators, actions that show a submenu, widgets, and actions that perform an action. Separators are inserted with addSeparator(), submenus with addMenu(), and all other items are considered action items.
This rings a bell: Widgets! You can add a widget to the menu? That means you are settled, you can do whatever you want.
What you need is a QWidgetAction object. It allows you to insert a custom widget as an action. Your titles will be custom widgets. If you only need a title, a QLabel
should suffice:
QMenu* myMenu = new QMenu(...);
QLabel* label = new QLabel(tr("<b>Title</b>"), this);
label->setAlignment(Qt::AlignCenter);
QWidgetAction* a = new QWidgetAction(myMenu);
a->setDefaultWidget(label);
-- Source for this code
See this related question for more sophisticated example code: Is there a way to add a Widget to a QMenu in QtCreator
For Qt 5.1 and up, you should be using addSection(const QString &)
. It's designed precisely for what you're trying to do. The widget-based solutions will look weird unless you take great care at matching the fonts and spacing etc.
For Qt 4, you should use addAction(const QString &)
as a fallback, if you really intend your code to compile with Qt 4. It's a reasonable tradeoff, I think.
For Qt 5.0 - well, you shouldn't be using it at all anymore, it's as simple as that :)
For a popup menu you can create your custom QWidgetAction to add to a popup menu.
This is sample QWidgetAction:
#include <QWidgetAction>
class myCustomWidgetAction: public QWidgetAction
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
explicit myCustomWidgetAction(QWidget * parent);
protected:
QWidget * createWidget(QWidget *parent);
};
myCustomWidgetAction::myCustomWidgetAction(QWidget * parent):QWidgetAction(parent) {
}
QWidget * myCustomWidgetAction::createWidget(QWidget *parent){
myCustomWidget * widget=new myCustomWidget(parent);
return widget;
}
You can then add your widget to a toolButton to be diaplayed in a popup menu:
myCustomWidgetAction * widgetAction = new myCustomWidgetAction(this);
ui->toolButton->addAction(widgetAction);
Your custom widget can be a list containing different elements or it can be any other widget. You can also add multiple instances of myCustomWidgetAction to the toolButton.
You can also add it to a QMenu like:
QMenu* menu = new QMenu();
menu->addAction(widgetAction);