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How to add a QMenuBar to QWidget in QtDesigner

Problem:
I have a custom Window Hint within QMainWindow, I need to place QMenuBar under a row of layout
This is how it looks now
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And how it looks like in QtDesigner
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Question:
How to place QMenuBar under custom task bar

Solution

  • First of all, there's no way to do this right in QtDesigner
    I found a way to replace it by directly changing *.ui file

    First step is to open *.ui file in text editor (I'm using PyCharm with *.xml extension)

    Second step is look how grid layout works, basically it built like
    HTML tag with few options like row, column, rowspan, colspan
    first two of them are position of the item and other two for positioning
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    Following step is to find our QMenuBar widget (my is on 142-154 lines)
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    copy and move on

    Then we need to create a new item tag in layout tag
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    This is the beginning of layout tag, create a tag after it

    Then add coordinates of QMenuBar that you want (mine is row="1" column="0" colspan="5")
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    And paste QMenuBar tag into it, then correct indentation
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    Now save the file and look at it in QtDesigner
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    Using PyUic reveals none problem