QAction, triggered signal dont call a slot

[kaszewczyk]

Hello,
I have QMainWindow and i created a QMenuBar added QMenu in it with actions that are connected with some slots but when i run appliacation and want to use some options from menu the slot is not called, i dont know where is a problem.

Here is main window constructor

Window::Window(QWidget *parent) :
    QMainWindow(parent),
    ui(new Ui::Window)
{        
    ui->centralWidget = new QWidget;
    setCentralWidget(ui->centralWidget);
    ui->setupUi(this);
    ui->render = new Render();
 
    ui->menuBar = new QMenuBar;
 
    ui->menuAnimacja = new QMenu;
 
    createAnimationActions();
    ui->menuAnimacja->addAction( ui->actionStart );
    ui->menuAnimacja->addAction( ui->actionStop );
    ui->menuBar->addMenu( ui->menuAnimacja );
 
}

Window::Window(QWidget *parent) :
    QMainWindow(parent),
    ui(new Ui::Window)
{        
    ui->centralWidget = new QWidget;
    setCentralWidget(ui->centralWidget);
    ui->setupUi(this);
    ui->render = new Render();

    ui->menuBar = new QMenuBar;

    ui->menuAnimacja = new QMenu;

    createAnimationActions();
    ui->menuAnimacja->addAction( ui->actionStart );
    ui->menuAnimacja->addAction( ui->actionStop );
    ui->menuBar->addMenu( ui->menuAnimacja );

}

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and here i am creating actions

void Window::createAnimationActions()
{
    ui->actionStart = new QAction(this);
    connect(ui->actionStart, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(startAnimation()));
 
    ui->actionStop = new QAction(this);
    connect(ui->actionStop, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(stopAnimation()));
}

void Window::createAnimationActions()
{
    ui->actionStart = new QAction(this);
    connect(ui->actionStart, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(startAnimation()));

    ui->actionStop = new QAction(this);
    connect(ui->actionStop, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(stopAnimation()));
}

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[wysota]

Do you get any warnings at the console?

[kaszewczyk]

No warns at all

[wysota]

Could you show us the declaration of your Window class?

[Lykurg]

ui->actionStart = new QAction(this);

ui->actionStart = new QAction(this);

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why are you do that? The ui file has already create one. Also setting a central widget in the ctor before calling ui->setupUi() is "nonsens". So most likely you are doing some other things which break the connection. To figure that out, please provide a minimal compilable example reproducing your problem.

EDIT: Ha! I think because you create a new action you can't trigger it through your created menu anymore.

[wysota]

There is more of that. This doesn't make sense too:

ui->menuBar->addMenu( ui->menuAnimacja );

ui->menuBar->addMenu( ui->menuAnimacja );

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[kaszewczyk]

Thanks, guys