do "tear off menus" work on mac?

davecotter

the documentation doesn't say "no", and i know that NSMenus support it

but when i try, no dice.

davecotter

i'm pretty sure the answer is simply "no"

mrjj

Hi
There is
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmenubar.html#nativeMenuBar-prop
Maybe it must be on/off for it to work.

Also this is default FALSE
http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qmenu.html#tearOffEnabled-prop

davecotter

yes, if i turn OFF "native menu bar" then the menu "bar" shows at the top of the main window, which is absolutely not what i want (it doesn't look like a mac app) (in this config the tear off menus do indeed work)

what i want is to use the native menu bar, and still have tear off menus. i guess that's not possible?

SGaist

Hi,

Can you show a minimal sample code that shows what you tried ?

davecotter

ui->menuBar->setNativeMenuBar(false);
...
menuP->setTearOffEnabled(true);

that works. if the first call passes true, it fails

davecotter

i'm pretty sure the answer is simply "no"

SGaist

I might be wrong but it's likely because macOS tear off representation has been deprecated. See NSMenu setTearOffMenuRepresentation and NSMenuView isTornOff which both states that macOS doesn't support torn off menus.

davecotter

I believe you are correct, but Qt could simply work around that. ie: not use the OS level tear off menus, but just implement them the same way as if not using the native menu bar.