[Qt-interest] Display a message on the right corner

[Ferenc Stelcz]

Sujan Dasmahapatra wrote:
> Friends
> 
> Generally  if we show a message on the status bar it's displayed  on the
> left side. Can we display a message on the  right side....I want to
> display the coordinates on the right  side constantly as user moves
> mouse on the graphics view...is it possible...at the same time other
> conventional messages will appear on the left side as usually...
> 
> Help  me someone 

You aren't learning anything from our suggestions on using the docs, are you?

Let's take the example code in $QTDIR/examples/mainwindows/mdi/mainwindow.cpp 
for setting up a simple statusbar:

void MainWindow::createStatusBar()
{
     statusBar()->showMessage(tr("Ready"));
}

Well this will display a message in the left corner.

Now, you want to add a widget that is visible all the time your mainwindow 
exists. And it should be on the right side...... ... (lots of periods, because 
we love it! lol)

So fire up Assistant and look for the keyword "statusBar". Read the docs, and 
you'll find a method called "addPermanentWidget(QWidget *w, int stretch)". If 
you don't understand it, use the Google translator to translate it to your 
native language, it's a pretty good tool even for as a complex language as 
hungarian. :P

If you are too lazy to do it yourself, here is an ugly but working example I 
have written for you in about 5 minutes (included the time reading your post, 
searching some example code, searching the docs and typing the code)

void MainWindow::createStatusBar()
{
     statusBar()->showMessage(tr("Ready"));

     QLabel* lbl = new QLabel(this);
     lbl->setText("I am too lazy to read the documentation...");
     statusBar()->addPermanentWidget(lbl,0);
}

Of course (as you will have noticed) *lbl* won't be visible from outside the 
createStatusBar() method, so you'll have to tune it a bit.

HTH

--
Ferenc Stelcz
Junior Sofware Engineer

Banyan Technologies LLC.


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