Getting seleted menu item

Question

I am implementing run time menu on a button(QPushButton) in my app user has to make choice between ftp and http when he click on upload button.

QMenu menu(this); 
menu.addAction("ftp");
menu.addAction("http");
ui.mUploadBtn->setMenu(&menu);
ui.mUploadBtn->showMenu();

My ques is that how could i know which selection user selected or is their any function to get that.

thankyou

Adrien BARRAL · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-20T08:35:09.400

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One way to catch the result of a menu is to do this :

 QAction* action = menu.exec(QCursor::pos());

Then you can use

action->text()==QString("ftp")

To know if the user clicked on "FTP".

So as said by Frank Osterfeld in the comments, you can also create a slot in you class, and connect menu trigger action signal to it :

connect(&menu, SIGNAL(triggered(QAction*)), this, SLOT( sl_OnMenuTriggered(QAction* )));

void sl_OnMenuTriggered(QAction* _action)
{
if(_action->text()=="ftp") ...
}

This is the "non blocking" way.

edited Jan 20 '14 at 08:35

answered Jan 20 '14 at 07:56

Adrien BARRAL

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Or connect to QMenu::triggered(QAction*), in case you want to use showMenu() or some other non-blocking way of showing the menu. – Frank Osterfeld Jan 20 '14 at 07:58
menu.exec() not showing menu at right location after pressing on upload button it shows menu on left top corner of screen – bhupinder Jan 20 '14 at 08:01
Ok, you can use the second way I introduced in my response, or menu.exec(QCursor::pos()); – Adrien BARRAL Jan 20 '14 at 08:03
sorry i missed to place &menu in connect – bhupinder Jan 20 '14 at 08:34
Ok.. its corrected, I didn't see it when I approved the edition :) – Adrien BARRAL Jan 20 '14 at 08:35

Getting seleted menu item

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