Setting "hot keys" (or whatever they are called) for items in menus
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wrote on 6 May 2015, 20:40 last edited by
How do you set the shortcuts for opening menus and submenus? I know there is setShortcut in QAction, but I am referring to the underlining of a specific character, so when that character is pressed while the parent menu is open, the submenu will open. (e.g.) "Print" is a submenu in the file menu, and the "P" character needs to be underlined so that when it is pressed, the print dispatch will trigger. I know that putting '&' before the specified character usually notifies the program which character should be the "hot key". Just wondering if there is any specific way to do that with Qt.
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It's like you said: put "&" in front of the character you want to act as an accelerator.
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It's like you said: put "&" in front of the character you want to act as an accelerator.
wrote on 7 May 2015, 14:05 last edited by@Chris-Kawa The accelerators are working, but the line that usually shows up below the accelerator key is not there.
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It should show up (only) when you navigate to menus via keyboard i.e. hold "alt".
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It should show up (only) when you navigate to menus via keyboard i.e. hold "alt".
wrote on 7 May 2015, 14:40 last edited by@Chris-Kawa Is there a way to make them always visible? Seems unreasonable to ask the user of the app to have to press the alt key to see them beforehand.
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It's not Qt specific and that's how Windows worked from the time it was invented. The accelerators are keyboard navigation aid and they are not shown unless you use keyboard.
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