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André Hoffmann
André Hoffmann

Reputation: 3553

QMenuBar only contains inactive menu items on OS X

For some reason all my menu bar items are greyed out when I use the native menu bar on OS X Mavericks:

menu bar

I create the menu actions using the following code:

newAct = new QAction(tr("&New"), this);
newAct->setShortcuts(QKeySequence::New);
newAct->setStatusTip(tr("New"));
newAct->setShortcutContext(Qt::ApplicationShortcut);
newAct->setEnabled(true);
newAct->setAutoRepeat(false);
addAction(newAct);
connect(newAct, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(newFile()));
...

These actions are then added to the menubar like this:

// _menuBar = new QMenuBar(0);
_menuBar = menuBar();
//_menuBar->setNativeMenuBar(false);

fileMenu = _menuBar->addMenu(tr("&File"));
fileMenu->addAction(newAct);

Uncommenting the first line shows the same behaviour. It does however work fine when I use the the non-native menu bar.

Qt version:

$ /usr/local/qt/5.3/clang_64/bin/qmake -v    
QMake version 3.0
Using Qt version 5.3.1 in /usr/local/qt/5.3/clang_64/lib

Any ideas/suggestions?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 356

Answers (2)

WuSu
WuSu

Reputation: 1

I had the same problem.

Setting the windowModality property of my MainWindow to NonModal worked for me.

Upvotes: 0

Jeremy Friesner
Jeremy Friesner

Reputation: 73294

I suspect this line is your culprit:

addAction(newAct);

You shouldn't be adding the QActions to your window, since you'll be adding them to the fileMenu object instead. Try removing the above line.

Upvotes: 0

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