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/*!
    \page actionmanager.html
    \title The Action Manager and Commands

    \QC provides a central options page for managing shortcuts for actions in
    \uicontrol Edit > \uicontrol Preferences > \uicontrol Environment >
    \uicontrol Keyboard. Plugins must tell \QC about the actions they provide,
    so they can appear in the options. Also some actions, like \uicontrol Edit >
    \uicontrol Undo, need to be dispatched to different plugins depending on the
    context which the user is currently in, for example a text editor, or
    a UI design component. The Core::ActionManager and Core::Command classes
    are used to manage this.

    The action manager contains a list of Core::Command instances. Each command
    represents an entry in the keyboard shortcut settings.

    A command also manages which actual QAction is currently represented by the
    command, depending on context. For this, a command has its own QAction which
    is accessible via Core::Command::action(), and should be used when adding
    the command to the UI like the menu and tool buttons. This QAction delegates
    its \c triggered() and \c toggled() signals to the currently active QAction.

    \image actionmanager.png

    \section1 Command

    The class Core::Command represents an action with a shortcut that can be
    set by the user in the settings, and can be delegated to an actual
    QAction in a plugin, depending on context.

    A command is referred to by its unique ID. Plugins use the ID when
    registering an action for the command in a specified context with
    Core::ActionManager::registerAction(). That method returns a Core::Command
    instance that is then used to further configure the action.
    If multiple QActions are registered for the same command (the same ID),
    they must be registered for different contexts.
    The ID is also used for grouping in the options page: everything up to the
    first dot in the ID is used as the category, under which to show the
    command.

    By default, the options page shows the text of the currently active QAction
    in addition to the ID. If that does not fit the purpose well, you can set a
    different display text with Core::Command::setDescription().

    Use the command's Core::Command::setDefaultKeySequence() method to set the
    default key sequence that is used if the user doesn't customize it.
    The shortcut on the QAction that you register with
    Core::ActionManager::registerAction() is never used, so do not set that.

    Core::Command::action() returns the action that should be used for UI and
    user interaction. Add this to menus and tool buttons. You should never
    set properties like the enabled or visibility state on this QAction
    directly. It is managed by the action manager and reflects the state of the
    currently active QAction in some plugin.

    The QAction that you registered in the action manager is for your internal
    purposes. Use that to connect your logic to the QAction::triggered()
    signal, and to set the enabled and visibility state.
    Core::Command::action() will reflect these changes, if your QAction is
    active, determined by the active context. For performance reasons the
    action text, tool tip and icon are not updated by default. They are only
    copied from the first QAction registered for the command. Set the
    corresponding Core::Command::CommandAttribute if you need dynamic updates
    of these properties.

    \section1 Contexts

    When plugins register a QAction for a command, they need to provide a
    Core::Context. Which of the registered QActions for a command is currently
    active is decided via an ordered list of current contexts.

    Contexts are collected from multiple sources:

    \list
        \li Global context. This is a context that is always active, with lowest
            priority order.
        \li Application focus. Instances of QWidget can be associated to a
            context via Core::IContext. All contexts from the current focus
            widget up the widget hierarchy are added to the current context.
        \li Manually managed contexts. Contexts can be added and removed
            manually via ICore::updateAdditionalContexts().
    \endlist

    \section2 Using IContext

    Core::IContext is a separate object that associates the QWidget from
    Core::IContext::widget() with the context Core::IContext::context().

    To associate a widget with a context, create a Core::IContext instance,
    set the widget and context on it, and register it with
    Core::ICore::addContextObject(). Whenever your widget is in the parent
    chain of the application focus widget, the context that you specified
    will be active as well.

    \code
    auto contextObj = new Core::IContext(this);
    contextObj->setWidget(myWidget);
    contextObj->setContext(myContext);
    Core::ICore::addContextObject(contextObj);
    \endcode

    IContext instances are automatically unregistered when they are deleted.
    Use Core::ICore::removeContextObject() if you need to unregister an IContext
    instance manually.

    Some constructs in \QC automatically have an associated context, like
    Core::IEditor and Core::IMode.

    \section2 Manually Managing Contexts

    If you want a context to be active or inactive independently of the
    application focus, you can add and remove contexts manually with
    Core::ICore::updateAdditionalContexts(), Core::ICore::addAdditionalContext()
    and Core::ICore::removeAdditionalContext().
    Prefer Core::ICore::updateAdditionalContexts() if you need to remove and add
    contexts, to avoid overhead introduced by removing and adding contexts
    in separate calls.

    \section1 Registering Actions

    Prefer registering actions in your plugin's
    ExtensionSystem::IPlugin::initialize() method. This way any plugin depending
    on your plugin has access to these actions.

    \code
    namespace Constants {
    const char ACTION_ID[] = "Example.Action";
    } // Constants

    bool ExamplePlugin::initialize(const QStringList &arguments, QString *errorString)
    {
        // some other setup ...

        QAction *action = new QAction(tr("Example Action"), this);
        Core::Command *cmd = Core::ActionManager::registerAction(action, Constants::ACTION_ID,
                                                Core::Context(Core::Constants::C_GLOBAL));
        cmd->setDefaultKeySequence(QKeySequence(tr("Ctrl+Alt+Meta+A")));
        connect(action, &QAction::triggered, this, [this] {
            // do something
        });

        // more setup ...

        return true;
    }
    \endcode

    This snippet sets up a sample action with the ID \c ACTION_ID that is always
    active (specified by the context \c {Core::Constants::C_GLOBAL}), and gives
    it the keyboard shortcut \c {Ctrl+Alt+Meta+A}. The \c {QAction *action}
    that is registered for the global context for the action is owned by the
    plugin. Connect to this QAction's triggered signal, and manage the action's
    state by calling the corresponding methods on this QAction instance.

    \section1 Summary

    \list
        \li Use Core::ActionManager::registerAction() to register your own
            QAction for a command with the specified ID.
        \li If multiple QActions are registered for the same command, they need
            to be registered for different contexts.
        \li Use Core::Command::setDefaultKeySequence(), do \e not use
            QAction::setShortcut().
        \li Use Core::Command::action() for user-facing purposes, such as
            menus and tool buttons.
        \li Use your own QAction to set properties like text and icon, and to
            connect your application logic.
    \endlist
*/
