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Retrieving pointer to qpopupmenu

Frans

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Tuesday, June 8th 2004, 3:06pm

Retrieving pointer to qpopupmenu

Hello all,

I have a problem with building a dynamic menu.

I need to on the aboutToShow() signal for a qpopupmenu populate it with entries, as well as sub menus. This would be no problem if I had a pointer to the menu, but I do not because all the menus are built with KDE's XMLGUI.
So, I need a method to retrieve a pointer to a qpopupmenu, and all I got is its menu identifier(not index or Id). I have a qmenubar(kmenubar) via QMainWindow(kmainwindow). Tricky, AFAICT..

I know building dynamic menus are generally a bad idea, but I have a valid reason(honest!).

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Frans

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Tuesday, June 8th 2004, 5:27pm

RE: Retrieving pointer to qpopupmenu

If you know the name of your menu, you can always retrieve it exploring children from QMenuBar.
The QObject::children() method reports a QObjectList you can iterate in. Some KDE folks could tell you if there is something simpler, however.
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Tuesday, June 8th 2004, 10:38pm

I think you can use KXMLGUIFactory::container() to get a pointer to all containers (menus and toolbars) defined in the application's XML GUI file.

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