[Qt-interest] Qt 4.6.1 - no tooltips in menu bar QAction

Stephen Collyer scollyer at netspinner.co.uk
Tue Apr 6 15:18:26 CEST 2010


On 1 April 2010 19:06, Constantin Makshin <cmakshin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Toolbars can be shown in "icons only" mode and in that case tooltips are
> the only way of showing the button's brief description. What's the purpose
> of tooltips in menus?
>

The action is in a QMenuBar, not in a QMenu. Only the icon is visible, so it
would be convenient to have a tooltip available.

Anyway, it seems that this is a known limitation:

http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-2362

so i'll have to work round it myself.

-- 
Stephen Collyer
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