Shortcut for QMenu

[Ryhel]

Hello! If anybody could help me with creating keyboard shortcut for QMenu item in a QMenuBar of QMainWindow? I need to open the QMenu items by pressing functional buttons (F1, F2, etc.) and QMenu::menuAction()->setShortcut(QKeySequence("F1")) have no effect. Qt-x11-opensource-4.2.3.

[aamer4yu]

I am also not getting the action by pressing F1 or other keys...

However we can use combination of Alt + keys for displaying the menu.

eg: menu = menuBar()->addMenu(tr("&File"));

This will pop the File menu on pressing Alt + F

Hope this helps

[Lykurg]

Hi, a solution could be:

void myBaseClass::keyPressEvent( QKeyEvent *e )
{
  switch ( e->key() )
  {
    case Qt::Key_F1:
      myF1Action->trigger();
    break;
  }
  e->accept();
}

void myBaseClass::keyPressEvent( QKeyEvent *e )
{
  switch ( e->key() )
  {
    case Qt::Key_F1:
      myF1Action->trigger();
    break;
  }
  e->accept();
}

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Lykurg

[Ryhel]

Thank you, this can be a solution. However shortcuts (including F-keys), that are set to QAction items of a QMenu work fine, so that actions are triggered, but if I want QMenu to open when pressing keys without Alt and call QMenu::menuAction()->setShortcut() - this unfortunately doesn`t work.