QMainWindow

[bood]

Of course QDialog could have menu and status bar etc, you can always add them yourself.

QMenuBar menuBar = new QMenuBar(this);
menuBar->addAction("File");
menuBar->addAction("Tools");

QMenuBar menuBar = new QMenuBar(this);
menuBar->addAction("File");
menuBar->addAction("Tools");

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[Lykurg]

Of course QDialog could have menu and status bar etc, you can always add them yourself.

But then you can't float and move the menu bar out of the box.

[franco.amato]

But then you can't float and move the menu bar out of the box.

Hi, I don't want to float and move the menu bar.
I would it fixed at its position.

[faldzip]

You can just put everything in the central widget. I don't see the problem. If your application have one main window then it is your choice if it is QMainWindow, QDialog, QWidgetand so on. With this three you always have the main widget area: in QWidget and QDialog this are themselfs and in QMainWindow it is the central widget. Just place everything in proper layouts and it should work for those classes. QMainWindow just offers more then QWidget or QDialog, because has dock areas for example.

[franco.amato]

You can just put everything in the central widget. I don't see the problem. If your application have one main window then it is your choice if it is QMainWindow, QDialog, QWidgetand so on. With this three you always have the main widget area: in QWidget and QDialog this are themselfs and in QMainWindow it is the central widget. Just place everything in proper layouts and it should work for those classes. QMainWindow just offers more then QWidget or QDialog, because has dock areas for example.

So if I would have
Menu bar,
tool bar,
status bar,
and my custom widgets that I don't want be float, but fixed I can use QDialog approach?
I still have problem in layout them