Adding submenu in QMenuBar

Question

I have a simple GUI with QWidget as my main class and I need to create a submenu like this:

the main class 'QMainWindow'

when i try using QMenuBar the result is like this:

main class 'QWidget'

How can i create submenu like the first picture? Should I change my main class to QMainWindow if I want the result like the first picture?

code:

import sys
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

class Widget(QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QWidget.__init__(self, parent=parent)
        self.setWindowTitle("Network Automation")
        #self.setFixedSize(350, 500)

        #Menubar
        filemenu = QMenuBar()
        menu = filemenu.addMenu('&File')
        submenu = menu.addMenu('&Open File')

        layout = QGridLayout(self)
        layout.addWidget(filemenu, 0, 1)


app = QApplication(sys.argv)
app.setStyle('Plastique')
app.processEvents()
window = Widget()
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())

Please help.

Yes, you should use `QMainWindow` - it has a built-in menubar. — ekhumoro, Jul 24 '17 at 16:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '17 at 08:51

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Presumably you want to change the

submenu = menu.addMenu('&Open File')

to

openaction = menu.addAction('&Open File')

answered Jul 24 '17 at 08:51

Aleš Erjavec

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and how can i get the same result like first picture, on the second picture i got much margin not like first picture? – zNed Jul 24 '17 at 09:00

Adding submenu in QMenuBar

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