KActionCollection Class Reference

from PyKDE4.kdeui import *

Detailed Description

A container for a set of QAction objects.

KActionCollection manages a set of QAction objects. It allows them to be grouped for organized presentation of configuration to the user, saving + loading of configuration, and optionally for automatic plugging into specified widget(s).

Additionally, KActionCollection provides several convenience functions for locating named actions, and actions grouped by QActionGroup.

Note:: If you create your own action collection and need to assign shortcuts to the actions within, you have to call associateWidget() or addAssociatedWidget() to have them working.

Signals
	actionHighlighted (QAction action)
	actionHovered (QAction action)
	actionTriggered (QAction action)
	inserted (QAction action)
	removed (QAction action)
Methods
	__init__ (self, QObject parent, KComponentData cData=KComponentData())
	__init__ (self, KXMLGUIClient parent)
QAction	action (self, int index)
QAction	action (self, QString name)
[QActionGrou]	actionGroups (self)
	actionHighlighted (self, QAction action)
	actionHovered (self, QAction action)
	actionTriggered (self, QAction action)
[QActio]	actions (self)
[QActio]	actionsWithoutGroup (self)
QAction	addAction (self, QString name, QAction action)
KAction	addAction (self, QString name, KAction action)
KAction	addAction (self, KStandardAction.StandardAction actionType, QObject receiver=0, QString member=0)
KAction	addAction (self, KStandardAction.StandardAction actionType, QString name, QObject receiver=0, QString member=0)
KAction	addAction (self, QString name, QObject receiver=0, QString member=0)
	addAssociatedWidget (self, QWidget widget)
	associateWidget (self, QWidget widget)
[QWidge]	associatedWidgets (self)
	clear (self)
	clearAssociatedWidgets (self)
KComponentData	componentData (self)
QString	configGroup (self)
bool	configIsGlobal (self)
	connectNotify (self, QString signal)
int	count (self)
	exportGlobalShortcuts (self, KConfigGroup config, bool writeDefaults=0)
	importGlobalShortcuts (self, KConfigGroup config)
	inserted (self, QAction action)
bool	isEmpty (self)
KXMLGUIClient	parentGUIClient (self)
	readSettings (self, KConfigGroup config=0)
	removeAction (self, QAction action)
	removeAssociatedWidget (self, QWidget widget)
	removed (self, QAction action)
	setComponentData (self, KComponentData componentData)
	setConfigGlobal (self, bool global)
	setConfigGroup (self, QString group)
	slotActionHighlighted (self)
	slotActionTriggered (self)
QAction	takeAction (self, QAction action)
	writeSettings (self, KConfigGroup config=0, bool writeDefaults=0, QAction oneAction=0)
Static Methods
[KActionCollectio]	allCollections ()

Method Documentation

__init__	(	self,
		QObject	parent,
		KComponentData	cData=KComponentData()
	)

Constructor. Allows specification of a KComponentData other than the default global KComponentData, where needed.

__init__	(	self,
		KXMLGUIClient	parent
	)

QAction action	(	self,
		int	index
	)

Return the QAction* at position "index" in the action collection.

This is equivalent to actions().value(index);

QAction action	(	self,
		QString	name
	)

Get the action with the given name from the action collection.

Parameters:

name

Name of the KAction

Returns:: A pointer to the KAction in the collection which matches the parameters or null if nothing matches.

[QActionGrou] actionGroups ( self )

Returns the list of all QActionGroups associated with actions in this action collection.

actionHighlighted	(	self,
		QAction	action
	)

Indicates that action was highlighted (hovered over).

Deprecated:: Replaced by actionHovered(QAction* action);

Signal syntax:: QObject.connect(source, SIGNAL("actionHighlighted(QAction*)"), target_slot)

actionHovered	(	self,
		QAction	action
	)

Indicates that action was hovered.

Signal syntax:: QObject.connect(source, SIGNAL("actionHovered(QAction*)"), target_slot)

actionTriggered	(	self,
		QAction	action
	)

Indicates that action was triggered

Signal syntax:: QObject.connect(source, SIGNAL("actionTriggered(QAction*)"), target_slot)

[QActio] actions ( self )

Returns the list of KActions which belong to this action collection.

The list is guaranteed to be in the same order the action were put into the collection.

[QActio] actionsWithoutGroup ( self )

Returns the list of KActions without an QAction.actionGroup() which belong to this action collection.

QAction addAction	(	self,
		QString	name,
		QAction	action
	)

Add an action under the given name to the collection.

Inserting an action that was previously inserted under a different name will replace the old entry, i.e. the action will not be available under the old name anymore but only under the new one.

Inserting an action under a name that is already used for another action will replace the other action in the collection.

Parameters:

	name	The name by which the action be retrieved again from the collection.
	action	The action to add.

KAction addAction	(	self,
		QString	name,
		KAction	action
	)

KAction addAction	(	self,
		KStandardAction.StandardAction	actionType,
		QObject	receiver=0,
		QString	member=0
	)

Creates a new standard action, adds it to the collection and connects the action's triggered() signal to the specified receiver/member. The newly created action is also returned.

The action can be retrieved later from the collection by its standard name as per KStandardAction.stdName.

KAction addAction	(	self,
		KStandardAction.StandardAction	actionType,
		QString	name,
		QObject	receiver=0,
		QString	member=0
	)

Creates a new standard action, adds to the collection under the given name and connects the action's triggered() signal to the specified receiver/member. The newly created action is also returned.

The action can be retrieved later from the collection by the specified name.

KAction addAction	(	self,
		QString	name,
		QObject	receiver=0,
		QString	member=0
	)

Creates a new action under the given name to the collection and connects the action's triggered() signal to the specified receiver/member. The newly created action is returned.

Inserting an action that was previously inserted under a different name will replace the old entry, i.e. the action will not be available under the old name anymore but only under the new one.

Inserting an action under a name that is already used for another action will replace the other action in the collection.

Parameters:

	name	The name by which the action be retrieved again from the collection.
	action	The action to add.

addAssociatedWidget	(	self,
		QWidget	widget
	)

Associate all actions in this collection to the given widget, including any actions added after this association is made.

This does not change the action's shortcut context, so if you need to have the actions only trigger when the widget has focus, you'll need to set the shortcut context on each action to Qt.WidgetShortcut (or better still, Qt.WidgetWithChildrenShortcut with Qt 4.4+)

[KActionCollectio] allCollections ( )

Access the list of all action collections in existence for this app

associateWidget	(	self,
		QWidget	widget
	)

Associate all actions in this collection to the given widget. Unlike addAssociatedWidget, this method only adds all current actions in the collection to the given widget. Any action added after this call will not be added to the given widget automatically. So this is just a shortcut for a foreach loop and a widget->addAction call.

[QWidge] associatedWidgets ( self )

Return a list of all associated widgets.

clear ( self )

Clears the entire action collection, deleting all actions.

clearAssociatedWidgets ( self )

Clear all associated widgets and remove the actions from those widgets.

KComponentData componentData ( self )

The KComponentData with which this class is associated.

QString configGroup ( self )

Returns the KConfig group with which settings will be loaded and saved.

bool configIsGlobal ( self )

Returns whether this action collection's configuration should be global to KDE ( true ), or specific to the application ( false ).

connectNotify	(	self,
		QString	signal
	)

Overridden to perform connections when someone wants to know whether an action was highlighted or triggered

int count ( self )

Returns the number of actions in the collection.

This is equivalent to actions().count().

exportGlobalShortcuts	(	self,
		KConfigGroup	config,
		bool	writeDefaults=0
	)

Export the current configurable global key associations to config.

Since:: 4.1

Parameters:

config

Config object to save to

Parameters:

writeDefaults

set to true to write settings which are already at defaults.

importGlobalShortcuts	(	self,
		KConfigGroup	config
	)

Import from config all configurable global key associations.

Since:: 4.1

Parameters:

config

Config object to read from

inserted	(	self,
		QAction	action
	)

Indicates that action was inserted into this action collection.

Signal syntax:: QObject.connect(source, SIGNAL("inserted(QAction*)"), target_slot)

bool isEmpty ( self )

Returns whether the action collection is empty or not.

KXMLGUIClient parentGUIClient ( self )

The parent KXMLGUIClient, or null if not available.

readSettings	(	self,
		KConfigGroup	config=0
	)

Read all key associations from config.

If config is zero, read all key associations from the application's configuration file KGlobal.config(), in the group set by setConfigGroup().

removeAction	(	self,
		QAction	action
	)

Removes an action from the collection and deletes it.

Parameters:

action

The action to remove.

removeAssociatedWidget	(	self,
		QWidget	widget
	)

Remove an association between all actions in this collection and the given widget, i.e. remove those actions from the widget, and stop associating newly added actions as well.

removed	(	self,
		QAction	action
	)

Indicates that action was removed from this action collection.

Deprecated:

Signal syntax:: QObject.connect(source, SIGNAL("removed(QAction*)"), target_slot)

setComponentData	(	self,
		KComponentData	componentData
	)

Set the componentData associated with this action collection.

Warning:: Don't call this method on a KActionCollection that contains actions. This is not supported.

Parameters:

componentData

the KComponentData which is to be associated with this action collection, or an invalid KComponentData instance to indicate the default KComponentData.

setConfigGlobal	(	self,
		bool	global
	)

Set whether this action collection's configuration should be global to KDE ( true ), or specific to the application ( false ).

setConfigGroup	(	self,
		QString	group
	)

Sets group as the KConfig group with which settings will be loaded and saved.

slotActionHighlighted ( self )

Internal:

Deprecated:: Replaced by slotActionHovered();

slotActionTriggered ( self )

QAction takeAction	(	self,
		QAction	action
	)

Removes an action from the collection.

Parameters:

action

the action to remove.

writeSettings	(	self,
		KConfigGroup	config=0,
		bool	writeDefaults=0,
		QAction	oneAction=0
	)

Write the current configurable key associations to config. What the function does if config is zero depends. If this action collection belongs to a KXMLGuiClient the setting are saved to the kxmlgui definition file. If not the settings are written to the applications config file.

Note:: oneAction() and writeDefaults() have no meaning for the kxmlgui configuration file.

Parameters:

config

Config object to save to, or null (see above)

Parameters:

writeDefaults

set to true to write settings which are already at defaults.

Parameters:

oneAction

pass an action here if you just want to save the values for one action, eg. if you know that action is the only one which has changed.

KActionCollection Class Reference

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