[SOLVED] How to Add Standard Icons to Qt Menus

tony5429 · 2009-06-05 18:45:10

Right now the "quit" button in a Qt programme I'm working on looks like this:

The code I'm using is,

exitAct = new QAction(tr("&Quit"), this);
exitAct->setShortcut(tr("Ctrl+Q", "Quit"));

I'd like it to have the standard quit icon I see in all my other programmes:

Does anyone know how I can do this?

Last edited by tony5429 (2009-06-20 20:34:24)

scio · 2009-06-05 20:01:19

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qaction.html#icon-prop

Every QAction has an icon property, use that to set icons.

I would recommend looking at: http://code.google.com/p/qticonloader/ for a cross-platform way of setting icons.
However, that doesn't support KDE3 so well, so I use:

action_File_New->setIcon(QtIconLoader::icon("document-new",
                                      QtIconLoader::icon("filenew",
                                         QApplication::style()->standardIcon(
                                            QStyle::SP_FileIcon))));

for File >> New

Check out http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-n … 01s04.html for icon names

tony5429 · 2009-06-08 19:06:54

Thanks for your suggestion, scio. Do you know how I could, rather than going with the qticonloader, simply use the kde4 standard icon for, say the File >> New button icon?

scio · 2009-06-08 20:44:17

1) copy all of the resources into your project in a qrc file.
2) Use http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qstyle.html#standardIcon

I would still highly recommend using qticonloader as it is written by a Nokia dev and will most likely be added in future versions of Qt.

tony5429 · 2009-06-09 18:50:21

Hrm.. Well I tried out qticonloader and it worked perfectly. My only concern is qticonloader is licenced LGPL whereas my project is licenced GPL. Do you know if I can simply include qticonloader in my project without changing my licence?

scio · 2009-06-09 19:14:56

8 ** Commercial Usage ...
13 **
14 ** GNU Lesser General Public License Usage
15 ** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser
16 ** General Public License version 2.1 as published by the Free Software
17 ** Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.LGPL included in the
18 ** packaging of this file. ...
22 ** In addition, as a special exception, Nokia gives you certain
23 ** additional rights. These rights are described in the Nokia Qt LGPL
24 ** Exception version 1.0, included in the file LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt in this
25 ** package.
26 **
27 ** GNU General Public License Usage
28 ** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU
29 ** General Public License version 3.0 as published by the Free Software
30 ** Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.GPL included in the
31 ** packaging of this file. Please review the following information to
32 ** ensure the GNU General Public License version 3.0 requirements will be
33 ** met: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

The code can be used under any of the Qt licenses, including GPL. Just follow GPL 3.0 rules and you will be fine.

tony5429 · 2009-06-09 19:19:02

Hrm... so I can just drop that cpp and h file into my package and not worry about it?

scio · 2009-06-10 00:33:55

As long as you distribute the GPL with it like you would anyway for a GPL project.

tony5429 · 2009-06-10 00:48:22

Okay; sounds good then. Yeah; I've got the COPYING file included in the archive already.

Arch Linux

#1 2009-06-05 18:45:10

[SOLVED] How to Add Standard Icons to Qt Menus

#2 2009-06-05 20:01:19

Re: [SOLVED] How to Add Standard Icons to Qt Menus

#3 2009-06-08 19:06:54

Re: [SOLVED] How to Add Standard Icons to Qt Menus

#4 2009-06-08 20:44:17

Re: [SOLVED] How to Add Standard Icons to Qt Menus

#5 2009-06-09 18:50:21

Re: [SOLVED] How to Add Standard Icons to Qt Menus

#6 2009-06-09 19:14:56

Re: [SOLVED] How to Add Standard Icons to Qt Menus

#7 2009-06-09 19:19:02

Re: [SOLVED] How to Add Standard Icons to Qt Menus

#8 2009-06-10 00:33:55

Re: [SOLVED] How to Add Standard Icons to Qt Menus

#9 2009-06-10 00:48:22

Re: [SOLVED] How to Add Standard Icons to Qt Menus

Board footer