Is it possible to move main menubar down?

[wysota]

Did you try simply using QMainWindow::setMenuWidget() and passing a complex widget composed of your custom data and a QMenuBar laid out vertically?

+-------------------+
|QWidget w. v-layout|
| +---------------+ |
| | CUSTOM WIDGET | |
| +---------------+ |
| |    QMenuBar   | |
| +---------------+ |
+-------------------+

+-------------------+
|QWidget w. v-layout|
| +---------------+ |
| | CUSTOM WIDGET | |
| +---------------+ |
| |    QMenuBar   | |
| +---------------+ |
+-------------------+

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Edit: Note that it's available since Qt4.2. In earlier versions you have to stick with mangling with the layout directly.

[gfunk]

Oh wow! I was using 4.1 and had no idea they added that to 4.2. Thanks, I will have to check that out.

[jpn]

This should do the trick in Qt 4.1:

menuBar()->setParent(statusBar());

menuBar()->setParent(statusBar());

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I can't assure it won't break something but it's worth try..

[gfunk]

This should do the trick in Qt 4.1:

menuBar()->setParent(statusBar());

menuBar()->setParent(statusBar());

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Interesting. I tried it and noticed that it could make the menubar take up the window space of any widget that I called setParent() on. Unfortunately, the menubar QAction's can't pop up any dialogs, ending up in crash. Ah well, was definitely worth the try.