[Qt-interest] Sunken statusbar in QT 4.4

[Diego Schulz]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Nitish Jha<nitishjham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>  I am new to Qt and I wanted to know if it is possible for the statusbar in
> Qt on Windows XP to be sunken like other native toolkit based window apps.
> If so how ?
> I am using PyQt 4.4
>
>
> Thanks,
> Nitish
>
>

Yes, it is possible. Even if I don't use PyQt, the example below
(plain C++) should be easily translatable to python.
If I recall correctly you have to use the QMainWindow class, which
provides a statusBar() method.
Using this method, you can add whatever widget you like to your status bar.

Suppose you have a QMainWindow subclass, MyMainWindow with a custom
method called from the ctor, defined like this

void MyMainWindow::createStatusBar()
{
     statusLabel = new QLabel ( this );   // statusLabel declared in
mymainwindow.h

      // customize the appearance of statusLabel to whatever you want
     statusLabel->setFrameShape(QFrame::WinPanel);
     statusLabel->setFrameShadow(QFrame::Sunken);
     // ...

     // then add the widget to the status bar
     statusBar()->addWidget ( statusLabel );

}



HTH,

diego