Menu QML Type

A native menu. More...

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Properties

• data : list<Object>
• enabled : bool
• font : font
• items : list<MenuItem>
• menuBar : MenuBar
• menuItem : MenuItem
• minimumWidth : int
• parentMenu : Menu
• systemTrayIcon : SystemTrayIcon
• title : string
• type : enumeration
• visible : bool

Signals

• aboutToHide()
• aboutToShow()

Methods

• void addItem(MenuItem item)
• void addMenu(Menu submenu)
• void clear()
• void close()
• void insertItem(int index, MenuItem item)
• void insertMenu(int index, Menu submenu)
• void open(MenuItem item)
• void open(Item target, MenuItem item)
• void removeItem(MenuItem item)
• void removeMenu(Menu submenu)

Detailed Description

The Menu type provides a QML API for native platform menu popups.

Menu can be used in a MenuBar, or as a stand-alone context menu. The following example shows how to open a context menu on right mouse click:

MouseArea {
    anchors.fill: parent
    acceptedButtons: Qt.RightButton
    onClicked: zoomMenu.open()
}

Menu {
    id: zoomMenu

    MenuItem {
        text: qsTr("Zoom In")
        shortcut: StandardKey.ZoomIn
        onTriggered: zoomIn()
    }

    MenuItem {
        text: qsTr("Zoom Out")
        shortcut: StandardKey.ZoomOut
        onTriggered: zoomOut()
    }
}

Submenus

To create submenus, declare a Menu as a child of another Menu:

Menu {
    title: qsTr("Edit")

    Menu {
        title: qsTr("Advanced")

        MenuItem {
            text: qsTr("Auto-indent Selection")
            onTriggered: autoIndentSelection()
        }

        MenuItem {
            text: qsTr("Rewrap Paragraph")
            onTriggered: rewrapParagraph()
        }
    }
}

Dynamically Generating Menu Items

It is possible to dynamically generate menu items. One of the easiest ways to do so is with Instantiator. For example, to implement a "Recent Files" submenu, where the items are based on a list of files stored in settings, the following code could be used:

Menu {
    title: qsTr("File")

    Menu {
        id: recentFilesSubMenu
        title: qsTr("Recent Files")
        enabled: recentFilesInstantiator.count > 0

        Instantiator {
            id: recentFilesInstantiator
            model: settings.recentFiles
            delegate: MenuItem {
                text: settings.displayableFilePath(modelData)
                onTriggered: loadFile(modelData)
            }

            onObjectAdded: recentFilesSubMenu.insertItem(index, object)
            onObjectRemoved: recentFilesSubMenu.removeItem(object)
        }

        MenuSeparator {}

        MenuItem {
            text: qsTr("Clear Recent Files")
            onTriggered: settings.clearRecentFiles()
        }
    }
}

Availability

A native platform menu is currently available on the following platforms:

• macOS
• iOS
• Android
• Linux (only available as a stand-alone context menu when running with the GTK+ platform theme)

The Qt Labs Platform module uses Qt Widgets as a fallback on platforms that do not have a native implementation available. Therefore, applications that use types from the Qt Labs Platform module should link to QtWidgets and use QApplication instead of QGuiApplication.

To link against the QtWidgets library, add the following to your qmake project file:

QT += widgets

Create an instance of QApplication in main():

#include <QApplication>
#include <QQmlApplicationEngine>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling);
    QApplication app(argc, argv);
    QQmlApplicationEngine engine;
    engine.load(QUrl(QStringLiteral("qrc:/main.qml")));
    return app.exec();
}

Note: Types in Qt.labs modules are not guaranteed to remain compatible in future versions.

See also MenuItem, MenuSeparator, and MenuBar.

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