remove default action QMenuBar() s60

[pleasuretek]

Hi there,

I have an app for symbian s60 that is running great. I am trying to finish off the last few bugs and am having trouble removing an action whose text is "Action" from my QMenuBar. It seams there is a default action inserted at the beginning of the new QMenuBar.

I followed the tutorials (both regular and dynamic menu creation) from nokia forums, and my current code looks like:

mainwindow.h

public slots:
   void aboutAction();
   void helpAction();
 
private:
   QAction* menuAboutAction;
   QAction* menuHelpAction;

public slots:
   void aboutAction();
   void helpAction();

private:
   QAction* menuAboutAction;
   QAction* menuHelpAction;

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mainwindow.cpp (createMenu() is called in constructor)

void MainWindow::createMenu()
{
    menuAboutAction = new QAction("About", this);
   menubar()->addAction(menuAboutAction);
   connect(menuAboutAction,SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(aboutAction()));
 
    menuHelpAction = new QAction(tr("Help"),this);
    menubar()->addAction(menuHelpAction);
    connect(menuHelpAction,SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(helpAction()));
}

void MainWindow::createMenu()
{
    menuAboutAction = new QAction("About", this);
   menubar()->addAction(menuAboutAction);
   connect(menuAboutAction,SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(aboutAction()));

    menuHelpAction = new QAction(tr("Help"),this);
    menubar()->addAction(menuHelpAction);
    connect(menuHelpAction,SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(helpAction()));
}

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when menu is opened options available are : "show open apps"; "About"; "Help"; "Actions";. I would like to remove "Actions".
I am testing this on a nokia 6970 (surge) running symbian s60 v3.2. same issue occurs in s60 v5 emulator. I have tried calling optionsMenu->clear(); before adding actions, and calling optionsMenu->removeAction(action) (tried a few guesses to remove default with no luck). menuBar in mainwindow.ui has been created (tried with and without with same results).

The demo app from nokia (optionsmenu) runs great on my device, and it looks to me like they are created the same.
Thanks for any help.

[pleasuretek]

I have figured out that something in QtGui is creating that action. I was commenting out bits of code trying to figure out what object was creating the action, and as soon as any graphic widget (I tested button, listWidget, doubleSpinBox) is placed in a .ui via designer then the unwanted action appears.

I am going to try to create graphic widgets in code instead of via designer to see if that is an OK workaround. I am also trying to get my hands on a s60 v5 device to test, as the issue shows up on s60 v 3.2.

[pleasuretek]

Has anyone else deployed an app for symbian in Qt that made use of menuBar()? I have everything running perfect, almost ready to get signed and submit to Ovi store. I just need for my menu to display only the correct actions. When I get a list of actions held by the menuBar, the action (labeled 'Action') I wish to remove is not in the list.

When run in the emulator the menu is correct. But when run on my actual device, the issue shows up. All my application logic is fine, if I compile without widgets in my .ui, the menu is correct, but as soon as I add any widget to my gui, the action 'Action' shows up in my menuBar().

[tsp]

Most probably you have context menu enabled for the widget. If context menu is enabled then in Symbian port of Qt, context action "Actions" is added to menu in real device.

Try changing the property of context menu and see whether it makes any difference.

[pleasuretek]

You are exactly right tsp. I needed to call setContextMenu(QAction::NoContextMenu) on every widget created in the ui before I called that widget to be shown (I was doing this via setCentralWidget() but show() and exec() behave similar).

There is a demo in Qt examples called softkeys in the fluidlauncher that is a great tutorial on how to do everything correctly in 4.6.3 (a lot changed since 4.5.x)