From kde-devel  Wed Jan 13 22:53:20 2021
From: David Hurka <david.hurka () mailbox ! org>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:53:20 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Accessing a (sub)menu defined in an XmlGui ui.rc file
Message-Id: <2181300.ElGaqSPkdT () doro>
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On Wednesday, January 13, 2021 10:39:48 AM CET Tobias Leupold wrote:
> Hi list :-)
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> I have a problem with a KXmlGuiWindow and I honestly can't find respective
> docs or howtos/tutorials. I hope someone here can help me ...

I faced the same problem... :(

> It's a allegedly basic task: How can I access a submenu (or better: a
> submenu's QAction) for a menu defined in a ...ui.rc file?
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> If I define the submenu like so:
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>     <MenuBar>
>       <Menu name=3D"foo" >
>         <Menu name=3D"bar">
>           <text>Some text</text>
>           <Action name=3D"someAction"/>
>         </Menu>
>       </Menu>
>     </MenuBar>

I probably don=E2=80=99t understand properly what you need. But if you want=
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the action which contains the menu "bar", you could use KActionMenu.

Change the ui.rc to:

    <MenuBar>
      <Menu name=3D"foo" >
        <Action name=3D"bar"/>
      </Menu>
    </MenuBar>

then create a KActionMenu called "bar" in your KActionCollection, set its i=
con=20
etc., and populate its menu.

Of course this moves UI definition from ui.rc to C++ code, but it looks lik=
e=20
you want to modify the menu at runtime.