Label in a QToolbar

Question

How would you suggest to add a label on a QToolbar ? Since it only accepts action or somethings like that.

Thx

Tinware

Answer 1

The QToolBar also accepts widgets like a QLabel through the method QToolBar::addWidget.

Lowrance

Answer 2

As abresas wrote, a toolbar can be populated with a QAction. The QString passed along with the QAction is used in several ways (e.g as tooltip), but with 4.8 the default is to show a toolbar button with the icon only. To show the text with the icon, set the toolbar to a Qt::ToolButtonStyle, e.g.

ui->toolBar->setToolButtonStyle( Qt::ToolButtonTextUnderIcon );

Corrigible

I had to do ui->mainToolBar->setToolButtonStyle( Qt::ToolButtonTextUnderIcon ); in Qt 5.4 – Topeka

strangely enough the text shows up tripped in the bottom for long characters like 'g'. Any idea why that might be? – Topeka

Answer 3

You just pass the string to addAction method.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtoolbar.html

QAction *   addAction ( const QString & text )

Szymanski

If you do it like this then it is also a button – Tebet