QAction trigger source

[zaufi]

Hi,

is there any way to distinguish how QAction was triggered? particularly I need to know is an action was selected from a menu or triggered by a shortcut...

[sierdzio]

You can use:
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sender()->objectName();
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But I think you should find an other solution (using 2 separate QActions, perhaps?_.

[zaufi]

sender() is a free function?

2 separate actions... I'm talking about KDE application actually, so user will see both in 'Configure Shortcuts' dialog which is definitely not good...

[sierdzio]

Not sure what you mean by "free", but it is available in every QObject. See the "documentation":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qobject.html#sender.

[zaufi]

in C++ "free function" term means a non-member function... i.e. declared in a namespace/global scope.

[sierdzio]

Toy have the answer in the documentation, then: it's a member of QObject.