How to divide a status bar in parts

[franco.amato]

Hi to all,
I would create a status bar in my application and I would have 3 parts on it to add different messanges per part.
I also would add a little image in one of them.
How can I do it?
Best Regards,
Franco

[Lykurg]

Have you tried QStatusBar::addPermanentWidget() or QStatusBar::insertWidget()?

[franco.amato]

Have you tried QStatusBar::addPermanentWidget() or QStatusBar::insertWidget()?

Dear Lykurg,
is not exactly what I need. What I need is divide my status bar in 3 parts as you can see in this image:
http://www.lgiris.com/ps/products/idata/idataeac.htm
look at ths status bar of the software in the link. I would reproduce the same behavior.
Regards

[Lykurg]

Oh please, could you try at least read the small portions of documentation I pointed you? It is exactly what you need! Add three widgets and you have split your status bar up. With the stretch you can control the width of the widgets. Or if you like you can only add one widget for the whole space. Then this widget must divide itself into three parts etc.

[franco.amato]

Oh please, could you try at least read the small portions of documentation I pointed you? It is exactly what you need! Add three widgets and you have split your status bar up. With the stretch you can control the width of the widgets. Or if you like you can only add one widget for the whole space. Then this widget must divide itself into three parts etc.

Ah sorry I didn't get you before. For example with wxWidget you can explicitly split a status bar without adding widgets and refer to them as index 0 to n-1.
Thanx

[ChrisW67]

Did you actually try QStatusBar::addPermanentWidget() or QStatusBar::insertWidget() a couple of times before proclaiming that it did not give you the solution to your problem?

#include <QtGui>
#include <QDebug>
 
class MainWindow: public QMainWindow {
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    MainWindow(QWidget *p = 0): QMainWindow(p) {
        QWidget *central = new QWidget(this);
        setCentralWidget(central);
 
        // Do multipart status bar
        m_statusLeft = new QLabel("Left", this);
        m_statusLeft->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
        m_statusMiddle = new QLabel("Middle", this);
        m_statusMiddle->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
        m_statusRight = new QLabel("Right", this);
        m_statusRight->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
        statusBar()->addPermanentWidget(m_statusLeft, 1);
        statusBar()->addPermanentWidget(m_statusMiddle, 1);
        statusBar()->addPermanentWidget(m_statusRight, 2);
    }
public slots:
private:
    QLabel * m_statusLeft;
    QLabel * m_statusMiddle;
    QLabel * m_statusRight;
};
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);
 
    MainWindow m;
    m.show();
    return app.exec();
}
#include "main.moc"

#include <QtGui>
#include <QDebug>

class MainWindow: public QMainWindow {
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    MainWindow(QWidget *p = 0): QMainWindow(p) {
        QWidget *central = new QWidget(this);
        setCentralWidget(central);

        // Do multipart status bar
        m_statusLeft = new QLabel("Left", this);
        m_statusLeft->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
        m_statusMiddle = new QLabel("Middle", this);
        m_statusMiddle->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
        m_statusRight = new QLabel("Right", this);
        m_statusRight->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
        statusBar()->addPermanentWidget(m_statusLeft, 1);
        statusBar()->addPermanentWidget(m_statusMiddle, 1);
        statusBar()->addPermanentWidget(m_statusRight, 2);
    }
public slots:
private:
    QLabel * m_statusLeft;
    QLabel * m_statusMiddle;
    QLabel * m_statusRight;
};

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);

    MainWindow m;
    m.show();
    return app.exec();
}
#include "main.moc"

To copy to clipboard, switch view to plain text mode 

[franco.amato]

Cris I told to Lykurg that I didn't understand well before the last post so please read my post before to reply thank you.
Regards

[ChrisW67]

Both Lykurg's reply and your reply were posted while I was writing mine (amongst answering phones for work). Unfortunately there is no delete post so that I could remove the now unneeded response.

[franco.amato]

Both Lykurg's reply and your reply were posted while I was writing mine (amongst answering phones for work). Unfortunately there is no delete post so that I could remove the now unneeded response.

Hi Chris I know, doesn't matter. For that I proposed to wysota to add such feature but he doens't want.
Meanwhile thank you very much for the example, it's very usefull.
Regards

[Lykurg]

For that I proposed to wysota to add such feature but he doens't want.

We don't need such a feature. Based on the time stamp one can imagine that it was posted at the "same" time and everybody has the posibillity to edit his post and add something like "EDIT: too late...". Then all is clear. And besides: It is good that ChrisW67 hasn't delete his message, because of the code example!

[franco.amato]

Hi,
how is possible to change the text of one of the parts when the application is running?
And how is possible to add a small icon again when running?
Regards

[wysota]

We don't need such a feature. Based on the time stamp one can imagine that it was posted at the "same" time and everybody has the posibillity to edit his post and add something like "EDIT: too late...". Then all is clear.

The "Preview Post" button can do miracles in this situation

Hi,
how is possible to change the text of one of the parts when the application is running?
And how is possible to add a small icon again when running?

The "parts" are usually labels. You know how to change text of a label or add an icon to it, right?

[franco.amato]

Yes Wysota I solved. Thank you very much.
Best