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    Default Qt Designer - creating a form that includes a menu bar only.

    Hi,

    Does anyone know if you can create a mainform using Qt3 Designer that includes a height equal to zero. (i.e. all i want is a form that includes the menu bar and no body).

    I have tried setting minimum height to zero and then setting preferred height to minimum in the form properties but this did not solve the problem.

    I was thinking i may have to code up this form outside Qt designer but was just checking in case someone had encountered this and solved this problem previously,

    Thanks in advance,

    nlev.

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    Default Re: Qt Designer - creating a form that includes a menu bar only.

    What is the point of creating such a form?

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    Default Re: Qt Designer - creating a form that includes a menu bar only.

    Porting a legacy motif application to qt, not sure why they did it this way,

    I have tried manually setting the height in the .ui xml file to zero but i think it may be a qt designer limitation?

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    Default Re: Qt Designer - creating a form that includes a menu bar only.

    I suggest you do it the proper way instead of forcing odd design.

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    Default Re: Qt Designer - creating a form that includes a menu bar only.

    coding by hand i have made a QMainWindow dialog and used the widget class public method "setFixedHeight()" to set the height = 0, (which half worked, ie there is a small area below the menu bar) and "setFixedWidth()"(which did not work, ie goes to a max limit, but window can still be shrunk thinner)

    Is there other way to keep only the menu bar, and no area below the menu bar?

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    Default Re: Qt Designer - creating a form that includes a menu bar only.

    Yes. Use QMenuBar instead of QMainWindow.

  7. The following user says thank you to wysota for this useful post:

    nleverin (5th July 2007)

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    Default Re: Qt Designer - creating a form that includes a menu bar only.

    Ah ha, thank you very much, worked perfectly!!!

    cheers heaps for your help, im a newbie to Qt and C++, so your help is very appreciated.

    nlev.

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