How to write code to get the name/current text of a menu item?

sdf1444

Yes but not sure about the rest.

SGaist

What rest ? @jsulm already provided information.

And what is exactly the goal of getting the name of the menu ?

sdf1444

"self.combo.objectName()" doesnt work within my code. I need a way to get text of a menu item because the menu item refers to a python file in my current directory that I want to import.

Thanks

jsulm

@sdf1444 Do you want the text or object name?
You should be more clear.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmenu.html#title-prop

SGaist

To add to @jsulm, since you are talking about menu item, you likely are looking for the QAction::text property.

JonB

@sdf1444

self.combo.objectName()" doesnt work within my code. I need a way to get text of a menu item

Which is why @VRonin originally replied to you

The name can be extracted from the objectName property of the QAction that represents the menu item. The text is the same but uses the text property

To be clear, your code does not seem to use a QAction anywhere, I think you need to read up on that whole class (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qaction.html).

But now I am getting confused. Sometimes you talk about menu, which we are taking as a QMenu, and sometimes you talk about a combobox, QCombobox. I'm wondering whether by "menu" you mean a combobox, but I'm not sure....

sdf1444

@SGaist

When I mention "menu" I mean QMenu.

JonB

@sdf1444
OK. So where you go fileMenu.addAction(item) it's that QAction you need to call text() on to retrieve its text at a later date, which I believe is what you are asking.

Just as P.S.: the device names you're reading from file won't have an & in them, will they?

Pablo J. Rogina

@sdf1444 as mentioned before what you need is the QAction::text property.
And given that you're connecting lots of QAction objects (the items in your "Devices" menu) to the same slot, see below:

for item in f:
deviceImport = fileMenu.addAction(item)
deviceImport.triggered.connect(self.importbutton)

then in the slot you need to identify the signal sender to get a reference to the proper QAction, and get its text value (the device name you're looking for...). Something like this (code not tested)

def importbutton(self):
    sender = self.sender()
    selectedDevice = sender.text()
...

Look for code snippet eventsource.py in this example about signals & slots.

sdf1444

@Pablo-J-Rogina

Thank you so much!! This has worked for me.

Pablo J. Rogina

@sdf1444 said in How to write code to get the name/current text of a menu item?:

This has worked for me.

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