[Qt-interest] Stopping QAction from parsing "&"

[Jason H]

This dates back to old Win32API days...




----- Original Message ----
From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de>
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 4:33:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Stopping QAction from parsing "&"

On 06/10/2010 11:14 PM, Colin S. Miller wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> I have a QMenu where I add QActions using the
>>
>> QMenu::addAction(const QString& text)
>>
>> function. Problem is, 'text' contains filenames (you guessed it; it's
>> for a "Recent Files" menu), and some of the filenames contain "&"
>> characters. This gets parsed and generates a shortcut. That's wrong,
>> of course. How do I prevent this from happening?
>
> Nikos,
> The standard was of doing this is to double the &.
>
> Use myString.replace("&", "&&")

Thank you.  Didn't think of that.  I was trying "\&" and wasn't able to 
find anything in the docs.
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