How to move the QMenuBar definition in a separate UI file
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There's little point in employing separate .ui file just for menu bar since it's basically a list of QActions. You can store it as such and load at runtime. If it really needs to be in a .ui format there's "QUiLoader":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtuitools/quiloader.html
There's no way to sorta #include one ui into another at compile time. But creating a menu is basically a bunch of addMenu () and addAction() calls so maybe your script can generate that.
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Assumming that you have a .ui file in your resources defining a menu bar with File->Open menus like this:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui version="4.0">
<class>MenuBar</class>
<widget class="QMenuBar" name="MenuBar">
<widget class="QMenu" name="menuFile">
<property name="title">
<string>File</string>
</property>
<addaction name="actionOpen"/>
</widget>
<action name="actionOpen">
<property name="text">
<string>Open</string>
</property>
</action>
<addaction name="menuFile"/>
</widget>
<resources/>
<connections/>
</ui>
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And you want to load it into your mainwindow you would do so like this:
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QUiLoader loader;
QFile file(":/form.ui");
file.open(QFile::ReadOnly);
QMenuBar* menuBar = qobject_cast<QMenuBar*>(loader.load(&file, this));
file.close();setMenuBar(menuBar);
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Some error checking would be nice of course, but that's the general idea.
