Change existing menu from menubar

hobbyProgrammer

Hi,
I am creating an app where I'd like to have a menu that is dynamic.
The QActions that need to be in that menu are pulled from the database. Therefore it can be 0 QActions, but there can also be 10 items.
Let's say it's a list of employees. The title is menuEmployee and the submenu's need to be pulled from the database.

How do I do this? (I know how to pull the data from the database and dynamically create the actions, but i don't know how to add it to the existing menuEmployee.

menuEmployee is the 3rd menu of the menubar (idk if that's useful information).

jsulm

@hobbyProgrammer Does

ui->menuEmployee->addAction(action);

work?

jsulm

@hobbyProgrammer said in Change existing menu from menubar:

but i don't know how to add it to the existing menuEmployee

call addAction on the menu as shown here: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qaction.html

const QIcon openIcon = QIcon::fromTheme("document-open", QIcon(":/images/open.png"));
    QAction *openAct = new QAction(openIcon, tr("&Open..."), this);
    openAct->setShortcuts(QKeySequence::Open);
    openAct->setStatusTip(tr("Open an existing file"));
    connect(openAct, &QAction::triggered, this, &MainWindow::open);
    fileMenu->addAction(openAct); // HERE
    fileToolBar->addAction(openAct);

hobbyProgrammer

@jsulm Hi,

yes I know how to do that, but my menu is inside the menubar of my ui so I assume it would work like this:

ui->menubar->menuEmployee->addAction(action);

but that doesn't work. There isn't a QMenu in my h files either.

jsulm

@hobbyProgrammer said in Change existing menu from menubar:

but that doesn't work. There isn't a QMenu in my h files either.

I don't get it: does ui->menubar->menuEmployee exist? If so: what does not work?

hobbyProgrammer

@jsulm
it looks like it exists...

jsulm

@hobbyProgrammer said in Change existing menu from menubar:

it looks like it exists

Then what does not work?

hobbyProgrammer

@jsulm I can't edit it programmatically. Only in the designer.

Whenever I try this:

ui->menubar->menuEmployee->addAction(action);
it says:

"no member names 'menuEmployee' in 'QMenuBar' "

jsulm

@hobbyProgrammer Does

ui->menuEmployee->addAction(action);

work?

hobbyProgrammer

@jsulm yep, that was a stupid mistake :')
thank you so much!