Create a QMenubar under QTabWidget tabs

Question

I'm trying to find a way to insert QMenuBar under QTabWidget. Could not find any solution, tried to get QMenuBar intilization from generated .ui file of QMainWindow but no luck

    self.menubar = QtGui.QMenuBar(self.myTab)
    self.menubar.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 700, 21))
    self.menubar.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("menubar"))
    self.menuOptions = QtGui.QMenu(self.menubar)
    self.menuOptions.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("menuOptions"))
    self.myTab.setMenuBar(self.menubar)

I need it to be like this because my app will have custom option sections for each tab view

Do you need a solution with or without an ui designer ? – Mel Aug 26 '15 at 17:05 — Mel, Aug 26 '15 at 17:05
@tmoreau both solutions are ok for me – PYPL Aug 26 '15 at 18:19 — PYPL, Aug 26 '15 at 18:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 26 '15 at 15:11

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QMenuBar is just a widget. You can put it everywhere.

Why you get your menubar from .ui, instead of creating your own?

Also remember, that it will work only on Windows. On MacOs and Linux with DE that support global menu it will not work as you want.

answered Aug 26 '15 at 15:11

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The provided screenahot is from a tool that runs on linux, and yes its QT – PYPL Aug 26 '15 at 16:14

PYPL · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-06T19:09:14.667

Guys on the official QT Forum helped me...

The solution is that you can add QMenuBar to TAB's layout (You cannot do this from QT Designer)

    self.menuBar = QtGui.QMenuBar()
    self.menuOptions = QtGui.QMenu("Options", self.menuBar)
    self.actionQuit = QtGui.QAction('Quit', self)
    self.actionQuit.triggered.connect(self.close)

    self.menuOptions.addAction(self.actionQuit)
    self.menuBar.addAction(self.menuOptions.menuAction())

    #WARN! TAB widget must have a layout!
    self.ui.UDETabs.widget(0).layout().setMenuBar(self.menuBar)

Create a QMenubar under QTabWidget tabs

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