QSignalMapper, QMenu and custom context menu

[NameRakes]

Thanks to this thread, I discovered QSignalMapper, and found this nice example in Qt's doc:

ButtonWidget::ButtonWidget(const QStringList &texts, QWidget *parent)
      : QWidget(parent)
  {
      signalMapper = new QSignalMapper(this);
 
      QGridLayout *gridLayout = new QGridLayout;
      for (int i = 0; i < texts.size(); ++i) {
          QPushButton *button = new QPushButton(texts[i]);
          connect(button, SIGNAL(clicked()), signalMapper, SLOT(map()));
          signalMapper->setMapping(button, texts[i]);
          gridLayout->addWidget(button, i / 3, i % 3);
      }
 
      connect(signalMapper, SIGNAL(mapped(QString)),
              this, SIGNAL(clicked(QString)));
 
      setLayout(gridLayout);
  }

ButtonWidget::ButtonWidget(const QStringList &texts, QWidget *parent)
      : QWidget(parent)
  {
      signalMapper = new QSignalMapper(this);

      QGridLayout *gridLayout = new QGridLayout;
      for (int i = 0; i < texts.size(); ++i) {
          QPushButton *button = new QPushButton(texts[i]);
          connect(button, SIGNAL(clicked()), signalMapper, SLOT(map()));
          signalMapper->setMapping(button, texts[i]);
          gridLayout->addWidget(button, i / 3, i % 3);
      }

      connect(signalMapper, SIGNAL(mapped(QString)),
              this, SIGNAL(clicked(QString)));

      setLayout(gridLayout);
  }

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My question is: can I use the above approach with custom context menus, thus?

class MyCustomMenu : QMenu {
    /* do as above except map (QAction*, actionText) through signalMapper */
};

class MyCustomMenu : QMenu {
    /* do as above except map (QAction*, actionText) through signalMapper */
};

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Would this work? If not this, what do most people do when you have a long list (say, more than 5-8) of context menu actions?

Thanks for your insightful comments.

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Added after 1 40 minutes:

As it happens, my Google search before my posting was not useful. It's funny how juxtaposing a few words in Google search fetches a different set of hits ... this link clearly illustrates what I want to do, that too with the function pointer idiom, which is better, except if you have overloading. Even with overloading it is not at all bad.

Still I would like the opinion of Qt experts on the choice of idioms. Thanks.

[anda_skoa]

Would this work? If not this, what do most people do when you have a long list (say, more than 5-8) of context menu actions?

Yes, basically the same code, just using the action's "triggered()" signal instead of a button's "clicked()" signal.

Cheers,
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