Hiding a QWidget on a QToolbar?

Question

I have directly added some QWidgets to a QToolbar but simply going widget->setVisible(false) did not work. Can someone please give me an example of how to show and hide a widget that is on a QToolbar?

Thanks!

score 34 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '09 at 08:32

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You need to call setVisible() on the appropriate QAction instead. For example, addWidget() returns a QAction*:

QAction* widgetAction = toolBar->addWidget(someWidget);
widgetAction->setVisible(false);

answered Nov 08 '09 at 08:32

richardwb

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Thanks, didn't notice it returned a QAction on the addWidget! So much for knowing how to read simple API docs. – James Nov 08 '09 at 16:01
Haha. I googled around for this problem and came upon this answer. I had already +1ed the question and answer some time back, but I had forgotten over time. I'd +2 if I could. :-) – metal Sep 10 '16 at 01:14
What a convoluted API decision. – dev_nut Dec 04 '18 at 00:42

Hiding a QWidget on a QToolbar?

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