Cascades Development

[greenback]

Hi,

So I need to do something when I press on the ActionItem in the swipe down context menu on BB10.

I created the swipe down menu

    Menu *menu = Menu::create();
    Image infoIcon = Image(QUrl("asset:///images/info"));
    menu->addAction(ActionItem::create().title("Info").image(infoIcon));
    menu->setObjectName("infoItem");

Looked at the docs. AbstractActionItem

https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/reference/bb__cascades__abstractactionitem.html

The action item emits a triggered() Signal.

Then ran info a bunch of issue which didn't help.

• Looked at QTDocs
• Looked at Signals & Slots Section of BB Cascades Docs

in my App.hpp file I added

public:
   void debugText();

 I tried connecting the menu using the following code:

connect(menu->objectName(), SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(debugText()));

It doesn't work, and I spent 2 hours trying to figure out why not. 
How do you actually connect these things?


Thanks!

[nicklas · Accepted solution]

Hi,

triggered signal is attach to ActionItem itself and not Menu object.

And don't forget Q_SLOT macro.

class xxx : virtual QObject {
  Q_OBJECT

public:
  Q_SLOT void debugText(void);
};


Menu *menu = Menu::create();
Image infoIcon = Image(QUrl("asset:///images/info"));

ActionItem *mItem = ActionItem::create().title("Info").image(infoIcon)

menu->addAction(mItem);
menu->setObjectName("infoItem");

connect(mItem, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(debugText()));

Nicklas

[ekke]

take a look at my Open Source project

https://github.com/blackberry/opendataspace-cascades

Inside ...app.cpp you'll find the code to create an ApplicationMenu with some Actions and Howto connect the Actions with your code.

In my case I'm using Sheets to be displayed.

if you have any questions: I'm in San Jose next week

[greenback]

Ok. The code from nicklas worked. I was missin "Q_SLOT" type declaration in my header file.

Thank you nicklas, and ekke!