Where are the images of MenuItem?

[Yakumo500]

Hi,
I'm using QT under Linux because it draws faster text than GTK2. However now I want to use a mainmenu and i recognize that the QT mainmenu doesn't support images.

Is there a way to show images in menuitems?

[Ocye]

I guess icons are shown if item is disabled (-> Thread: Icons and QT).

[Blaazen]

Is there a way to show images in menuitems?

Probably no. You can use TToolBar instead of TMainMenu and assign some images from your TImageList to TToolButtons and show their captions. You can create TPopupMenus and assign them to TToolButtons (as their DropDownMenu property).

[Avishai]

If you are willing to put in the effort, you can construct your own with a combination of TPanels, TImages, TLabels and TPopupMenus.  But it sounds like a lot of work just to get some Icons.

[JuhaManninen]

Hi,
I'm using QT under Linux because it draws faster text than GTK2. However now I want to use a mainmenu and i recognize that the QT mainmenu doesn't support images.

Is there a way to show images in menuitems?

All sub-menuitems in MainMenu do supports images. Set Images property in MainMenu and ImageIndex property in MenuItems.
Top-level menuitems do not support images in a portable way but GTK2 and Windows seem to draw them. LCL MainMenu for Windows  is actually a custom-drawn control because some Windows versions don't support images in menus at all.

QT bindings seem to have a bug. If you set ImageIndex for a top-level menuitem then no images are shown even in sub-menus.
You could make a bug report of this.

Juha

[felipemdc]

If you are willing to put in the effort, you can construct your own with a combination of TPanels, TImages, TLabels and TPopupMenus.  But it sounds like a lot of work just to get some Icons.

No, that would not be an appropriate way to do it, but instead one should add a mainmenu component to the custom drawn controls package: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Custom_Drawn_Controls

But such a custom drawn menu would bring other problems, for example it won't integrate in Mac OS X. So one has to measure the benefits and disadvantages.

[JuhaManninen]

I started to look at the QT bindings code and tried to solve the problem but I couldn't.
Now there is a bug-report. See:
 http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20658

Yakumo500, didn't you see any icons in the menu? Or, did you see only icon but no text in top-level items?
It is strange that I saw a problem that all icons disappeared when top-level item's ImageIndex was defined, but now I can't reproduce it.

Juha

[zeljko]

It cannot be solved, that's by design of qt.

[Shebuka]

When i'v tried Qt for Mac i'v get a bunch of visual problems... and also icons problem in VST, see attached images:
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,13307.msg77119.html#msg77119