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RuLoViC
RuLoViC

Reputation: 855

How to customize AppMenu using Qt

I am developing Qt app for macOS.

How could I add items to menuApp? I mean the entry which appears on the menu bar right to Apple's Icon.

How can I achieve that in Qt?

I am using Qt 5.9. Qt Widgets.

menuApp is a menu which Apple puts by default in every application. In the image attached, it corresponds to a menu entry saying "Finder":

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Upvotes: 6

Views: 1046

Answers (2)

SHENOISZ
SHENOISZ

Reputation: 31

Create a MenuBar: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmenubar.html.

For does who want in qml, just do this:

import QtQuick 2.15
import QtQuick.Window 2.15
import QtQuick.Controls 2.15
import Qt.labs.platform 1.1 // comment this import to show menu in your app

ApplicationWindow {
    width: 640
    height: 480
    visible: true
    title: "Simple Test"
    color: "#fff"


    MenuBar {
        id: menuBar

        Menu {
            id: fileMenu
            title: qsTr("File")
            MenuItem { text: qsTr("&New...") }
        }

        Menu {
            id: editMenu
            title: qsTr("&Edit")
            // ...
        }

        Menu {
            id: viewMenu
            title: qsTr("&View")
            // ...
        }

        Menu {
            id: helpMenu
            title: qsTr("&Help")
            // ...
        }
    }
}

doc: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qt-labs-platform-menubar.html

Don't forget to add Widgets(in settings like Qt += or find_package) and QApplication(in main.cpp).

Upvotes: 1

Théophane
Théophane

Reputation: 73

As per the QT docs for menu role, the short answer is: set the menuRole of the QMenu item QAction to a predefined role listed in the docs, or the general QAction::TextHeuristicRole. Some roles are attributed automatically based on the text of the menu, but otherwise you have to do it yourself.

You can either do this programmatically, or using the ui editor. Here are some images from the ui editor in QT Creator, editing my mainwindow.ui file. I have some generic "General" QMenu which is not meant to be visible, under which the QAction elements are About which is auto-extracted and put under the menuApp as its name matches a predefined role. For the "Check for updates" QAction which matches no predefined role, I have manually set its property menuRole to ApplicationSpecificRole such that it is also put under the menuApp :

mainwindow.ui menu bar showing entries in QT Creator

mainwindow.ui menu role selection in QT Creator

resulting app menu, where about menu was auto attributed and check for updates was manually configured

Upvotes: 1

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