Quit in Windows

mgreenish

I'm writing an application for Windows and OS X using QT Creator. QT or OS X automatically puts a quit menu item but not for Windows. If I add 'Quit' with shortcut Command-Q in 'File' menu of my main application form, then Quit stops working under OS X. Do I need to add the Quit menu item dynamically or is there a way to create it in the form such that it works for both Windows and OS X?

raven-worx

@mgreenish
just add it dynamically then:

#ifndef Q_OS_MACOS
menu->addAction( quitAction );
#endif

JonB

@mgreenish
Windows apps don't tend to have a Quit menu item. And personally I shudder when I see a Windows program with one!

SGaist

Hi,

Please show how you are setting up your Quit action.

mpergand

@raven-worx said in Quit in Windows:

@mgreenish
just add it dynamically then:
#ifndef Q_OS_MACOS
menu->addAction( quitAction );
#endif

bad, bad !

action=menu->addAction(tr("Exit"));
action->setMenuRole(QAction::QuitRole);
action->setShortcut(QKeySequence::Quit);

should work well on all platforms.

raven-worx

@JonB said in Quit in Windows:

Windows apps don't tend to have a Quit menu item. And personally I shudder when I see a Windows program with one!

actually its the exact opposite IMO. Almost all application with a File-menu have one.

@mpergand said in Quit in Windows:

bad, bad !

whats bad about it?!

JonB

@raven-worx said in Quit in Windows:

@JonB said in Quit in Windows:

Windows apps don't tend to have a Quit menu item. And personally I shudder when I see a Windows program with one!

actually its the exact opposite IMO. Almost all application with a File-menu have one.

Pardon? Almost all Windows application have Exit on File menu, which is the standard (e.g. look at any Microsoft application), most I have seen which have a Quit are "non-Windows" applications.

raven-worx

@JonB
so you just talking about the texts Exit and Quit?!
I thought it's about haven such an action at all...

SGaist

Can you show a minimal example that reproduce the behaviour on macOS ?
By the way, which version of Qt are you using ?
Which version of macOS are you running ?

JonB

@raven-worx said in Quit in Windows:

@JonB
so you just talking about the texts Exit and Quit?!
I thought it's about haven such an action at all...

Yes. Just as MacOS users will expect the MacOS Quit instead of Exit.

mgreenish

Re: Quit in Windows

Hello all,

Thank you for the quick feedback. I have implemented the dynamic creation of the application 'Exit' only for Windows, as proposed.

@JonB: Yes, Exit is the standard on Windows, thank you for pointing that out but from your post, as raven-worx, I didn't understand right away you were saying they use 'Exit' rather than 'Quit'. Thanks for clarifying further on.

@SGaist: Thank you for the more complete code snippet. I figured out that i had made a mistake in my form declaration of the action and that is probably when when I tried to add it to the File menu, Command-Q stopped working under Mac.

Thanks!!