Qt QMenu QAction that is disabled but looks as enabled

Asked Mar 13 '18 at 22:27

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I would like to have an element of a popup menu that doesn't react to user inputs: click, hover, etc. but that doesn't look greyed out as when I disable it.

I have a QMenu to which I add a QAction

QMenu* menu// Further code creating the menu ...
QAction* titleAction = menu->addAction(QString::fromStdString("The Title"));
titleAction->setEnabled(false);

I have no experience with Qt. Maybe what I am doing is not the right approach to get what I want.

I tried setting the font

titleAction->font().setBold(true);

This is not enough to make it not be greyed out. Maybe it is not even a QAction what I should be inserting in the menu but some other type of object. I need some initial guidance of what I should be trying to do, not so much the code but the philosophy of the QMenu for an entry that behaves like I said.

asked Mar 13 '18 at 22:27

AOlov

You mean it doesn't react *visually* (i.e. highlight and such)? – p-a-o-l-o Mar 13 '18 at 22:30
@p-a-o-l-o Yes, and probably I should also say that it doesn't generate signals (not sure if that makes sense) when clicked. – AOlov Mar 13 '18 at 22:42
Please check the accepted answer of the possible duplicate: using `QWidgetAction` as it suggests could solve your issue. – p-a-o-l-o Mar 13 '18 at 22:52
@p-a-o-l-o Cool! Thank you. – AOlov Mar 13 '18 at 22:52

Qt QMenu QAction that is disabled but looks as enabled

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