[Qt-interest] two help menus - 4.5.2 mac

Peter Lee ptle at risingsoftware.com
Tue Jul 14 03:05:37 CEST 2009


Thanks for the tip... just tried that though and no good.  I also tried 
deleting our Help menu, and then trying to find the Mac Help menu that 
is there by default... and adding our actions in code.  No joy.

PL

Craig wrote:
> Nathan Carter wrote:
>   
>> I know that Qt sometimes moves entries into menus that it creates, to  
>> be more like the platform on which the software is running.  (E.g.,  
>> any "preferences" menu item gets moved to the application's menu on  
>> Mac, next to the apple menu.)  Is it possible that this is what's  
>> creating the smaller help menu, and you're creating the other one, and  
>> it's not actually called "Help" but maybe something like "Help " (with  
>> a space) or something similar that *looks* like "Help" but isn't?
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>>
>> On Jul 13, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Peter Lee wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> We've got a slightly strange issue here with the Qt 4.5.2 on Mac.  We
>>> are getting two Help menus appearing in the Mac menu bar instead of
>>> one.  We have one 'Help' menu entry in our .ui file, with a couple of
>>> sub items.  They appear on one menu and the other menu has two 'Mac'
>>> entries - 'Search' and 'Auralia Help'.
>>>
>>> Has anybody else experienced this?
>>>       
>
>
> You probably want to use void setMenuRole () on your QActions to be more
> explicit about where they should sit in the OSX menu.
>
> Craig
> Scribus Team
> _______________________________________________
> Qt-interest mailing list
> Qt-interest at trolltech.com
> http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-interest
>
>
>   

-- 
Peter Lee                                       ptle at risingsoftware.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd.      http://www.risingsoftware.com/
Publishers of 'Auralia' - Ear Training and 'Musition' - Theory Training
Ph: +61 3 9481 3320  FAX: +61 3 9481 3380  USA Freecall: 1 888 667 7839 





More information about the Qt-interest-old mailing list