PyQt5 - How to stop displaying shortcut in QAction?

[Patitotective]

I'm trying to stop displaying the shortcut in the QAction.

I want to remove the shortcut inside that red rectangle.

[eyllanesc]

@Patitotective One possible trick is to use a QProxyStyle:

import sys

from PyQt5.QtGui import QKeySequence
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow, QProxyStyle, QStyle


class CustomStyle(QProxyStyle):
    def drawControl(self, element, option, painter, widget=None):
        if element == QStyle.CE_MenuItem:
            option.text = option.text.split("\t")[0]
        return super().drawControl(element, option, painter, widget)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)

    style = CustomStyle(app.style())
    style.setParent(app)
    app.setStyle(style)

    w = QMainWindow()
    menu = w.menuBar().addMenu("About")
    action = menu.addAction("About me")
    action.setShortcut(QKeySequence("Ctrl+M"))
    menu.addAction(action)
    w.show()

    sys.exit(app.exec_())

[Patitotective]

@eyllanesc It works but there is still a long whitespace.

There is a way to delete it?

[SGaist]

Hi,

You can try with the QAction::shortcutVisibleInContextMenu property.

[Patitotective]

@SGaist Take a look at this minimal example where I, using setShortcutVisibleInContextMenu, setted shortcutVisibleInContextMenu to False in close_action but the shortcut was still there:

import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (QApplication, 
   QAction, QMainWindow, qApp)

class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
   def __init__(self, parent=None):
      super().__init__(parent)
      
      self.create_menu_bar()

   def create_menu_bar(self):
      # filling up a menu bar
      bar = self.menuBar()

      # File menu
      file_menu = bar.addMenu('&File')
      
      close_action = QAction("Close", self)
      close_action.setShortcut("Ctrl+Q")
      close_action.setShortcutVisibleInContextMenu(False)
      close_action.triggered.connect(self.close)

      file_menu.addAction(close_action)

if __name__ == '__main__':
   app = QApplication(sys.argv)
   # creating main window
   mw = MainWindow()
   mw.show()
   sys.exit(app.exec_())

am i doing it the right way?

[JonB]

@Patitotective
Your code is "correct". However your QAction is on a menu/menubar. And setShortcutVisibleInContextMenu(), as its name states, only applies on a context menu (i.e. right-click popup).

Unless @SGaist says otherwise, I don't think it will have any effect here. You might test this by trying your QAction in a context menu, instead of on a menubar.

[SGaist]

No I am not saying otherwise.

Just checked the sources of QMenu to confirm and indeed, the property is checked together with the "contextuallity" of the menu.

There's an additional check for \t in the action text and if so, the shortcut text should not appear.

[Patitotective]

@JonB But what I'm trying to achieve is to hide the shortcut of a QAction in the QMenuBar not in a context menu. Also when is searched for context menu i found just a QMenu.
(QMenu nor QMenuBar has setShortcutVisibleInContextMenu method)

[Patitotective]

@SGaist How should I remove the \t?

[JonB]

@Patitotective said in PyQt5 - How to stop displaying shortcut in QAction?:

@JonB But what I'm trying to achieve is to hide the shortcut of a QAction in the QMenuBar not in a context menu.

Which is exactly what I said: I don't see that setShortcutVisibleInContextMenu() is going to work in a QMenuBar, just look at the method name. Hence the (lack of) behaviour you reported when you tried it.

(QMenu nor QMenuBar has setShortcutVisibleInContextMenu method)

As @SGaist referenced for you, it's a method of QAction.

[Patitotective]

@JonB What i'm trying to do now is to create the shortcut independently of the QAction. But i also want to display the shortcut next to the QAction but it seems that QAction doesn't support html style (because it displays the html as text), i mean <span style="color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;">Ctrl+Q</span>.
So my question now is, there is a way to make QAction supports html style or another style way?