Qt: How to add custom menu items in Application Menu in Mac?

Question

I want to add a submenu in the application menu in Mac. The Application Menu already contains item "About myapp", "Quit myapp", etc. I want to add here a sub menu like "Themes" and then provide actions inside it like: "Theme 1", "Theme 2", etc.

So it should be like:

Menu Myapp->
    Themes->
        Theme 1
        Theme 2

To me it seems that this is not supported in a convenient way. While you can call setMenuRole(QAction::ApplicationSpecificRole) for QAction objects this method doesn't exist for QMenu. Probably you have to create the whole menu structure on your own. — pi3, Dec 20 '16 at 19:33

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 01 '15 at 18:05

Main menu is your already existing menu. You can add a submenu with the following code

QMenu* mainMenu = new QMenu( "Menu" );

QMenu* themesMenu = new QMenu( "Themes" );
mainMenu->addMenu( themesMenu );

themesMenu->addAction( "Theme 1" );
themesMenu->addAction( "Theme 2" );

But I think you want to add some other input arguments to the addAction( ... ) function, such add the slot what shall be executed on the menu activating. Read this about this function.

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Qt: How to add custom menu items in Application Menu in Mac?

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