QAction, setting menu breaks / stops triggered signal

[SPlatten]

Working on clients system, older version of Qt 4.8.4. Programmatically I'm creating the menu structure:

void clsMainWnd::addMenu(const QStringList& crslstMenu) {
    if ( crslstMenu.length() < MI_MIN_MENU_OPTIONS ) {
        return;
    }
    if ( mpobjMenuBar == nullptr ) {
        mpobjMenuBar = menuBar();
    }
    QMenu* pobjMenu(nullptr);
    if ( crslstMenu.length() > MI_PARENT_MENU_ID ) {
        tMenusMap::Iterator itFound(mmpMenus
                                          .find(crslstMenu[MI_PARENT_MENU_ID]));
        if ( itFound != mmpMenus.end()
        && (pobjMenu = itFound.value()) != nullptr ) {
            QAction* pobjAction(pobjMenu->addAction(crslstMenu[MI_MENU_TEXT]));
            if ( pobjAction != nullptr ) {
                pobjAction->setMenu(pobjMenu);
                pobjAction->setObjectName(QString(crslstMenu[MI_MENU_TEXT]));
                QObject::connect(pobjMenu, SIGNAL(triggered(QAction*))
                                ,this, SLOT(onMenuSelected(QAction*)));
                QObject::connect(pobjAction, SIGNAL(triggered))
                                ,this, SLOT(onMenuSelected()));
            }
        }
    } else if ( (pobjMenu = new QMenu(crslstMenu[MI_MENU_TEXT]
                                     ,mpobjMenuBar)) != nullptr ) {
        mpobjMenuBar->addMenu(pobjMenu);
        pobjMenu->setObjectName(QString[crslstMenu[MI_MENU_ID]));
        mmpMenus.insert(crslstMenu[MI_MENU_ID], pobjMenu);
    }
}

The issue is when the line:

pobjAction->setMenu(pobjMenu);

is included in the code, the triggered signals do not get emitted....why?

[Edit] I've removed the setMenu as it just doesn't do anything useful except break the code. Instead I've used setProperty and property in the slot to identify the menu action.

[Pl45m4]

@SPlatten said in QAction, setting menu breaks / stops triggered signal:

The issue is when the line:
pobjAction->setMenu(pobjMenu);

is included in the code, the triggered signals do not get emitted....why?

Why?! Expected behavior, I would say...

If you turn your QAction into a menu (by calling setMenu), you can not "trigger" it anymore, but you open the submenu, when you click it.
I think, you simply lose the "trigger" functionality by turning your action into a menu action.

Edit:

If you want to react on the click anyway, you could try the aboutToShow() signal. This doesn't work for contextMenus since they pop-up on hover and don't need a click, but works in QMenuBars.