[Qt-interest] How to hide softkey menu on Symbian?

[Tomasz Baniak]

Hi Constantine,

You are absolutely right about that it should not be made that way as it may
irritate and confuse the user.
Still, like i said, i am trying to achieve this as a workaround for the
http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-14589.
My alternative is to show the note without softkeys and with no usual way to
close it or (i hope) simply hide the menu before showing the note.

As it for the hint with QAction::menu() - it works on Windows, it does not
on Symbian.
I'm afraid that my problem might lay deep inside QMenuBar stuff like
QSymbianMenuBarPrivate and other related.
Some other thoughts?

Tomek

P.S. Sorry Constantine for answering you twice, i missed
qt-interest at trolltech.com in the first reply

2010/12/3 Constantin Makshin <cmakshin at gmail.com>

> This may be a bit off-topic, but IMHO it's not a very good idea to
> programmatically close UI elements the user is currently working with.
> Obviously, if the user opened a menu, [s]he did that to perform some
> action. And while the user is going to click a menu item, the menu
> suddenly closes. I guess that won't lead to anything except annoyance.
>
> As for the subject, you may try to get the menu associated with the
> softkey action by calling QAction::menu() and then close it with the
> QMenu::close() function.
>
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Tomasz Baniak <thomas.baniak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Alessandro
> > Proposed solution is not the case. I want this app to work exactly how it
> > works now.
> > So i am happy to have a menu under the softkey that will pop up when
> > clicked.
> > I just want it (popup, NOT softkey) to hide it programatically without
> > having to delete it.
> > Scenario:
> > 1) User opens app -> app with SK is opened
> > 2) User clicks SK -> menu pops up
> > 3) While menu is visible 'something' happens so i would like my app to
> > close/hide preciously shown menu
> > Tomek
> > 2010/12/3 <alessandro.portale at nokia.com>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> as a workaround, I believe you can set the action as a context action of
> >> your main widget/dialog/window . The action should appear as softkey and
> not
> >> open any submenu
> >>   http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qwidget.html#softkeys
> >>
> >> Hope that helps,
> >> Alessandro
> >> ________________________________________
> >> From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com
> >> [qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of ext Tomasz Baniak
> >> [thomas.baniak at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 11:06
> >> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> >> Subject: [Qt-interest] How to hide softkey menu on Symbian?
> >>
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I would like to hide a softkey menu (NOT a softkey, but a menu that is
> >> possibly shown) on Symbian (to avoid bug
> >> http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-14589).
> >>
> >> I did not succeed to do it in my app. I checked it on simple app with
> left
> >> softkey menu constructed as this:
> >> QMenu* m_menu;
> >>  ...
> >> m_menu = new QMenu(this);
> >> m_menu->addAction("Option 1", this, SLOT(menuItemTriggered()));
> >> m_menu->addAction("Option 2", this, SLOT(menuItemTriggered()));
> >> m_menu->addAction("Option 3", this, SLOT(menuItemTriggered()));
> >> QAction *myMenuKey = new QAction("MyMenu", this);
> >> myMenuKey->setSoftKeyRole(QAction::PositiveSoftKey);
> >> myMenuKey->setMenu(m_menu);
> >> menuBar()->addAction(myMenuKey);
> >> and could not hide it in any way.
> >>
> >> I have tried:
> >> m_menu->close();
> >> m_menu->hide();
> >> m_menu->setVisible(false);
> >> without any success
> >>
> >> It seems that Symbian uses it's native menu and it has not much to do
> with
> >> QMenu i used in a code above as it is possible to open MyMenu by
> clicking
> >> action key and display it and in the same moment display second
> >> 'instance'(?!) of the same menu by calling popup() (2 menus with the
> same
> >> options visible).
> >> On Windows the above situation works as expected (only 1 menu visible at
> >> time).
> >> Also calling (on Windows) hide/close does the trick to actually hide it.
> >>
> >> I will fill the bug later for 'double menu issue' later. But back to my
> >> question:
> >> How could i hide this left softkey menu on Symbian?
> >>
> >> Tomek
>
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