Border of QToolBar not showing

8Wallace8

I'm having trouble getting the border of my toolbar to show, which is located on a QWidget. Not sure if i have to set parents or something similar.

My code: ( I'm only setting up p1 for now to save code. )

@MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) : QMainWindow(parent)

{
QWidget *p1 = new QWidget;
QWidget *p2 = new QWidget;
QWidget *p3 = new QWidget;
QWidget *p4 = new QWidget;

QWidget *view = new QTextEdit;

QVBoxLayout *vbox = new QVBoxLayout;

QToolBar *toolBar = new QToolBar;
toolBar->addAction("file");

vbox->addWidget(toolBar);
vbox->addWidget(view);
vbox->setContentsMargins(0,0,0,0);
vbox->setSpacing(0);

p1->setLayout(vbox);

QWidget *wnd = new QWidget;
QWidget *container_1 = new QWidget;
QWidget *container_2 = new QWidget;

QHBoxLayout *h_layout1 = new QHBoxLayout;
QHBoxLayout *h_layout2 = new QHBoxLayout;
QVBoxLayout *v_layout3 = new QVBoxLayout;

QSplitter *split1 = new QSplitter;
QSplitter *split2 = new QSplitter;
QSplitter *split3 = new QSplitter;

split1->addWidget(p1);
split1->addWidget(p2);

split2->addWidget(p3);
split2->addWidget(p4);

h_layout1->addWidget(split1);
h_layout2->addWidget(split2);

container_1->setLayout(h_layout1);
container_2->setLayout(h_layout2);

split3->setOrientation(Qt::Vertical);
split3->addWidget(container_1);
split3->addWidget(container_2);

v_layout3->addWidget(split3);
wnd->setLayout(v_layout3);

setCentralWidget(wnd);

}@

raven-worx

since QToolBar derives from QWidget and not from QFrame you won't be able to add a (drawn) border to it.

NicuPopescu

imho QToolBar,QWidget can have border ... :)

I tested your code and it's working:

@...
QToolBar *toolBar = new QToolBar;
toolBar->setStyleSheet("QToolBar{border:1px solid rgb(255,0,0);}");
...@

raven-worx

right ... i checked the style painting code.
My fault ... sorry for that!

8Wallace8

Thanks for the help! But I thought that QToolBar had a default border.

I'm looking for something like this:
!http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/1155/cyfi.png!

But getting this:
!http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3606/7onj.png!

raven-worx

you could place the tool bar inside a QFrame though and set the frame style on it. This should give you something like in the first screenshot.

8Wallace8

The picture I referenced is using the same code as me, but I'm getting a different result. I think it has to do with setting up the parents, but not sure. Here is the "link":http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/3647to his code.