How to remove text section in QAction inside QMenu?

thebeast44

Hi all,

I'm creating a custom context menu for my application.

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const static QColor colors[5] = { QColor(231,216,124,85), QColor(214,149,156,85), QColor(190,211,112,85), QColor(124,185,200,85), QColor(190,147,204,85) };
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QPixmap pixmap(16,16);
pixmap.fill(colors[colorIndex_]);
QMenu *selectColor = new QMenu(tr("Colors"), this);
selectColor->setIcon(QIcon(pixmap));

QList<QAction *> colorList;
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
    pixmap.fill(colors[i]);
    QAction *color = new QAction(QIcon(pixmap), "", this);
    color->setData(QVariant(i));
    colorList.append(color);
}
selectColor->addActions(colorList);
menu->addMenu(selectColor);

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Using the code above, I tried to create a color selection menu with 16 by 16 icon only.
This works fine in Mac using Qt 5.3 but when I try the same code in Windows 7 using Qt 5.3,

!http://i.imgur.com/4oKyHbc.jpg!

the menu show a separator and huge blank space to the right.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or some requirement for Windows UI guideline or something.

Does anyone know how to get rid of that blank space?

Thank you.

SGaist

Hi,

Looks a bit fishy, can you try again with

@QAction *color = new QAction(QIcon(pixmap), QString(), this);@

to see if it changes something

thebeast44

[quote author="SGaist" date="1401490814"]Hi,

Looks a bit fishy, can you try again with

@QAction *color = new QAction(QIcon(pixmap), QString(), this);@

to see if it changes something[/quote]

Thanks for the suggestion.
I tried QString() as you've suggested and also 0 but didn't make any difference.
I think I'll just have to come up with some text to go along with the colors.

SGaist

In between you can show the color name.

I can't tell if it's a windows limitation, however you could check the "bug report system":http://bugreports.qt-project.org to see if it's something known