Ubuntu.Components.ActionContext

ActionContext groups actions together and by providing multiple contexts the developer is able to control the visibility of the actions. The ActionManager then exposes the actions from these different contexts. More...

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Properties

• actions : list<Action>
• active : bool

Detailed Description

ActionContext drives the state of its actions. Shortcuts and mnemonics are only registered if the context is active or if the action is assigned to an ActionItem all of whose parent contexts are active. In the following example the ActionContext drives the underlaying action1 and action2 shortcuts, and orphanAction will never trigger as it is neither enclosed in an active context nor assigned to an ActionItem.

import QtQuick 2.4
import ubuntu.Componenst 1.3
Rectangle {
id: root
width: units.gu(40)
height: units.gu(71)
ActionContext {
id: rootContext
active: true
actions: Action {
shortcut: 'Ctrl+A'
text: rootContext.active ? "Deactivate" : "Activate"
onTriggered: rootContext.active = !rootContext.active
}
}
Action {
id: orphanAction
text: "Orphan"
shortcut: 'Ctrl+O'
onTriggered: console.log("This will not be called")
}
Column {
Button {
text: rootContext.active ? "Deactivate" : "Activate"
onClicked: rootContext.active = !rootContext.active
}
Button {
action: Action {
id: action1
text: "F&irst Button"
onTriggered: console.log("First Button triggered")
}
}
Button {
action: Action {
id: action2
text: "S&econd Button"
shortcut: 'Ctrl+Alt+2'
onTriggered: console.log("Second Button triggered")
}
}
}
}

The toolkit assigns an ActionContext to each Page component, which is activated/deactivated together with the Page itself, driving the shortcut activations on the components and actions declared in the Page.

See also PopupContext.

Property Documentation

List of Actions in this ActionContext.

If true the context is active. If false the context is inactive. Defaults to false.

When context has been added to the ActionManager setting this value controls whether or not the actions in a context are available to external components.

The ActionManager monitors the active property of each of the local contexts that has been added to it. There can be more than one local context active at a. time. When a local context is set active the manager will notice this and will export the actions from the context.

Note: An Action declared to a component falling under an item that is a child of an inactive ActiveContext can be triggered manually using the mouse or connections.