Using layout of QMenuBar

Question

Hello, Is it possible to get layout from QMenuBar object and add items to it. What I am trying to do is a menu bar containing custom widgets (a clock and login/off widget) on the right. This code crashes.

QPushButton *b1 = new QPushButton("Button",ui->menuBar);
QHBoxLayout *rlayout = new QHBoxLayout(this);
ui->menuBar->layout()->addItem(rlayout);
rlayout->addWidget(b1);
b1->show();

Is there any other way? Best regards, Valentin Heinitz

Answer 1

You should look into QWidgetAction, that allows you to insert custom widget in a menubar. You would then have to call QMenuBar::addAction(QAction*) to put your QWidgetAction in the menubar.

I know that it is not part of your question, but maybe QDockWidget would do a better job for what you need??

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Would it be possible to create your own container widget, put the menu bar in on the left, and the other widgets in on the right? That should get you similar functionality and appearance to the Qt3 version of the menu bar.