Creating a Menu Bar and Adding Actions

Menu bars for our applications

These are the steps we use while creating menus with PyQt:

• Creating the main window with the QMainWindow class.

• Making QMenubar and QMenu objects.

• Using the QAction category to add actions to menus.

• Configuring QStatusBar to display information about activities in the status bar.

• Creating detachable widgets with QDockWidget to hold an application's tools.

• Understanding how to make checkable menu items and submenus.

Additional ideas and tools discussed include:

• Using QIcon to set and modify icons on widgets and in the main window.

• New sorts of dialogs, such as the "About" dialog box in QMessageBox and the QInputDialog, QColorDialog ...