[SOLVED] How to embed icons into the status bar?

[roni]

Hello everybody,

I would like to create status icons in the main window status bar. A good example is the network status icon with the tooltip in the Thunderbird window.

!https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3VIzaAFexv9T2ppMGhTWnZ2ZFU/view?usp=sharing()!

In my case there should be multiple status icons, each representing an object in the list.

Could you provide a simple code snippet or refer to an existing example online?

Thank you in advance!

Roni.

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

You can use QLabel where you set your various icons and then QStatusBar::addWidget to show them.

Hope it helps

[roni]

Thank you for the reply, SGaist!

Please clarify how to add QIcon to the QLablel. Does it have to be a QPicture?

Below is a detailed description of what I am trying to acheive.

The application is monitoring 3 local networks. The list of networks has 3 items:

list = {net1, net2, net3}

"net1" and "net2" are connected, "net3" is not. The status bar should have 3 icons: "connected", "connected", and "disconnected". The tooltip should show the network name.

If a new network "net4" is discovered, the item is added to the list:

list = {net1, net2, net3, net4}

At this point the new icon should appear in the bar.

If a connectivity status of a network changes, the corresponding icon should change accordingly.

It seems like a very basic functionality. Yet I could not find related examples...

[SGaist]

No need for QIcon, just use the image you want on the QLabel. Since you will have several of those you can create a little class that will handle one network and change its icon accordingly.

[roni]

Thank you very much, SGaist! It worked:

@QStatusBar * status_bar = statusBar();
QLabel *label = new QLabel("", status_bar);
QPixmap pixmap(QPixmap(":/images/network.png").scaledToHeight(status_bar->height()/2));

label->setPixmap(pixmap);
label->setToolTip(tr("net1"));

status_bar->addWidget(label);@

[SGaist]

You're welcome !

If you are going to handle several interfaces, you should consider making that a little custom widget so you won't have to duplicate that much code.

[roni]

I already did :-)

[SGaist]

Perfect !

Then happy coding !