I want to know whether it's possible to add a menu item to the taskbar right-click menu of all open applications in Windows 7. I specifically want to know whether it's possible to add the new item directly above the "Close Window" (or "Close All Windows") menu item.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks.
No. Imagine if that were possible: Everybody would abuse it by adding their app to the menu of every other app.
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I want to create a file open dialog with wxwidgets that uses the "new" style of the Common Item Dialog under Win-Vista and newer. Is there any way to achive this? With the wxFileDlg() I get a dialog as shown on the right side but I'd like to get th left dialog...
both dialogs
The dialogs sample included in wxWidgets shows the example of "new style" file dialog if you use e.g. "Dialogs|File operations|Save dialog" menu item (or just press Ctrl+S) and there is nothing special to do. If this doesn't work for you, check that you're
Not using some ancient version of wxWidgets.
Have correct manifest in your application.
Not using any custom controls in your dialog, as those are only supported in old style version.
I struggled with this today so thought I would post here for the next person who has the same issue. If I were to guess, your code was calling either dialog.Center() or dialog.CenterOnParent(). I've posted a lengthy explanation of why this happens here.
From all my time spent on this today, you have to choose whether you want have the old common control dialog and be able to center it, or use the new common item dialog and have it appear in your windows top-left corner.
The good news is that Visual Studio, Word, Excel, Firefox, Chrome, and many others all use the new dialog and they all open at the top-left of the application window.
Is it possible to change the Application Menu on OSX?
The default application menu looks like the following:
But most applications provide things like the about window in the application menu to not clutter the help menu:
How can this be done in Qt? A solution in QML would be great, but there isn't even a general solution in the project examples.
To force action into the application menu, set a menu role on it:
action->setMenuRole(QAction::ApplicationSpecificRole);
I want to replace the default sys menu(Restore, Move, Size etc.) with my custom entries. The menu I'm talking about can be opened either by clicking left button on window icon or by clicking right button on window title.
I can remove all the items and populate this menu with my own entries. But if I remove all entries then minimize, maximize and close buttons become inactive. So they depend on those menu items.
I want to have min, max, close buttons working as usual but system menu which contains my own items(like it is done in Windows Media Player).
I'm using Qt, but I'm almost sure it can't be done with it so any solution would be appreciated.
Do not remove Min/Max/Close items from system menu. It's much better to process WM_SYSCOMMAND message instead (SC_MINIMIZE, SC_MAXIMIZE, SC_RESTORE, SC_CLOSE).
I am working in QT Creator.
I would like to mention that I am beginner in this software. I succeeded to create a menu that has: Edit and Open. I would like to create a new window when " Open " from menu bar is clicked. Till now I succeeded to print a message in QMessageBox when I press Open. What is the code for linking Open clicked with a new window? Is it possible to somehow drag and drop a new window in mainwindow.ui and than link it with Open on action Open_activated()?
THX . Appreciate
P.S I AM WORKING IN UBUNTU/C++ language
This is probably too late to answer but as I am also a beginner and struggled a lot to figure out this, I would like to share a solution that worked for me and according to me this is one of the simplest solution out there for a beginner.
Follow this link. It's possible that in the future that link might not exists, hence I am writing down a detailed version, as detailed as possible because I think for an absolute beginner (like myself) it can be very useful.
Default mainwindow.cpp
Go to "mainwindow.ui" (or whatever .ui one has)
Right-click outside the window and activate "Action Editor" if it wasn't already activated:
Right-click on the window and create "Menu-bar" and then double-clicking on "type here" you can rename it as "Open" or something which will then drop-down another box where you can again type the name you desire, let's say "message".
When created menu item "message" is created corresponding item will apear in the "Action Editor"
Right-click on the "message" in the Action Editor and click "go to slot" which will lead you to the specific slot in the mainwindow.cpp:
Here you can create a small window with whatever message you want to display.
[![Window creating code]11 etc goes here.]12
****don't forget to include "QTextEditor", go to mainwindow.h and #include "
On compiling & executing we will see :
Most of the question is already answered by this previous question. It leaves one part open, namely how that slot is called.
Well, you answered that: the menu entry "Open" is a QAction. You can connect that action to the slot which you just created.
I was wondering if it is possible to add a menu resource to a dialog box. It would be easier to "design" my applications layout in multiple dialog boxes rather than the standard window, however, I will need to be able to add a menu. I would preferably be able to do this through a resource defined menu, however, I have no objections to doing it programmatically.
Right now my application is just starting like this:
DialogBox(hInst,MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_DIALOG_UPDATE),NULL,(DLGPROC)updateTitle);
in the main function.
Thanks for your help!
Dennis M.
Call SetMenu(hDlg, hMenu) during WM_INITDIALOG.
As Krishty commented on the accepted answer, it is easier and safer to just specify the menu ID in the designer. In the dialog resource properties, scroll down and there is a Menu option. Choose your already created menu from there. You won't see it in the designer, but when you run your app it will be there.