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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-54485

QDockWidget doesn't hide ampersands in window title on Windows

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P3: Somewhat important
    • None
    • 5.6.0, 5.6.1, 5.9.1
    • Widgets: Main Window
    • Bug affects: Windows 7 with Qt 5.6.1 and Qt 5.6.0.

      Doesn't affect (listing only what I have tested and found to work): XUbuntu 16.04, OSX 10.11
    • Vista Style/docked: 46eb7d6b70416d99fddcb5a3d59c478da6b36bea (qtbase/5.10, 11.10.2017, 510.0) e70230405dce5ac03817fc564a3a8ba5f208422a (qt/qtbase/wip/qt6)

    Description

      We create QDockWidgets and then use their toggleViewAction to populate a menu. For the menu, we want to include ampersands in the action text for the keyboard shortcuts. So we set the ampersands in the windowTitle of the QDockWidget. On OSX and Linux this works fine and the windowTitle ignores the ampersand when it is drawn onscreen. But on Windows the ampersands show up in the window title.

      Might be related to QTBUG-12547 but I couldn't find anything closer in the bug tracker and that was closed years ago.

      Attached is a Qt Creator project with the 20 or so lines of code needed to reproduce and some screenshots showing the & in the window title.

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        1. AmpersandBugTest.zip
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        2. Dockwidget_floating.png
          Dockwidget_floating.png
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        3. Dockwidget_internal.png
          Dockwidget_internal.png
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        4. main.cpp
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        5. QTBUG-54485_workaround.png
          QTBUG-54485_workaround.png
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        6. QTBUG-54485.png
          QTBUG-54485.png
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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. QTBUG-12547 Inconsistency of ampersand handling in window title of docked and undocked widgets

          • P2: Important - Urgent, should be fixed, but will not stop the release.
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              anwojcie Anna Wojciechowska
              mathturtle Shawn Waldon
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