How can I add a QLineEdit to Menubar

Question

I am attempting to reclaim some screen real estate in my application. I've got a search bar that is a basic QLineEdit and takes up space. In my menu bar, I easily have enough room to fit this search box, but I can't figure out how to get the LineEdit into the menubar.

Can someone assist me in getting this added to a menubar?

I am using Qt 4.7.

Here is an image of what I am attempting to accomplish. It's fairly basic image, but I'm looking to use the right half of the menubar as a search box.

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score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '11 at 06:09

Use QWidgetAction. QWidgetAction is for inserting custom widgets into action based containers, such as toolbars.

here is an example to add a progressbar to menu bar :

QWidgetAction *widgetAction = new QWidgetAction(this);
widgetAction->setDefaultWidget(new QProgressBar(this));
menubar.addAction(widgetAction);

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '13 at 12:08

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You could use

void QMenuBar::setCornerWidget ( QWidget * widget, Qt::Corner corner = Qt::TopRightCorner )

to add your widget in the menu.

answered Jan 30 '13 at 12:08

Torben Dannhauer

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Wow.. After more than a half day of different trials and errors this simple method solved my problem :-) (I needed to add a clock to the right corner of my application on the same "line" with the menubar) Thanks! – ClimbingLung Mar 16 '15 at 13:41

How can I add a QLineEdit to Menubar

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