Question

I want to show text for the tool button icons using setToolButtonStyle(Qt::ToolButtonTextUnderIcon);

I can see the text for actions directly added to Toolbar (Close & Save), but not for an action(Load) that is added to a QMenu in a Toolbutton. I have added this action in Qmenu to work it as a toggle with other actions(recent files).

I tried to set the text for the Toolbutton too using setText() and setWindowIconText(), but it doesn’t work. This is how it looks right now.

Below is the code snippet for the same.

actionLoad = new QAction(QIcon(QString("%1/cn_open.png").arg(imageDir)),tr("Load"), this);
actionLoad->setShortcut(tr("Ctrl+L"));
actionLoad->setStatusTip(tr("Load the model"));
connect(actionLoad, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(loadModelDlg()));

actionClose = new QAction(QIcon(QString("%1/cn_close.png").arg(imageDir)),tr("Close"), this);
actionClose->setShortcut(tr("Ctrl+X"));
actionClose->setStatusTip(tr("Close the Model"));
connect(actionClose, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(closeModel()));

actionSave = new QAction(QIcon(QString("%1/cn_save.png").arg(imageDir)),tr("Save"), this);
actionSave->setShortcut(tr("Ctrl+S"));
actionSave->setStatusTip(tr("Save the Model"));
connect(actionSave, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(saveModel()));

m_FileToolBar = addToolBar(tr("File"));
// Show text under the icon in toolbar
m_FileToolBar->setToolButtonStyle(Qt::ToolButtonTextUnderIcon);

// Add a menu for recent file items
m_FileMenu     = new QMenu();
m_FileMenu->addAction(actionLoad); // Add load button as the first item
for (int i = 0; i < MaxRecentFiles; ++i)
  m_FileMenu->addAction(recentFileActions[i]);
updateRecentFileActions();

// Create a tool button. Load button and recent files will be added as a drop down menu
m_FileToolButton = new QToolButton();
m_FileToolButton->setText(tr("Load")); // Not working
m_FileToolButton->setWindowIconText(tr("Load")); // Not working
m_FileToolButton->setMenu(m_FileMenu);
m_FileToolButton->setDefaultAction(actionLoad); 

// This creates a dropdown arrow to click.
m_FileToolButton->setPopupMode(QToolButton::MenuButtonPopup); 

m_FileToolBar->addWidget(m_FileToolButton);

// These actions show text under the icon
m_FileToolBar->addAction(actionClose); 
m_FileToolBar->addAction(actionSave);

Any help to resolve this is appreciated.

Answer 1

Why don’t you try something like that:

    QToolBar bar;
    QToolButton button;

    button.setPopupMode(QToolButton::MenuButtonPopup);
    button.setToolButtonStyle(Qt::ToolButtonTextUnderIcon);

    QAction loadAction(QIcon(":/img/openfile"),"Load",&button);
    button.addAction(&loadAction);
    button.setDefaultAction(&loadAction);

    QAction loadAction2("Load 2",&button);
    button.addAction(&loadAction2);

    bar.addWidget(&button);
    bar.show();

I didn’t use a QMenu as you can see above.