Additional QStatusbar

[UFSBoyden]

Hi

I want to add an QStatusbar above a current QStatusbar in a QMainWindow. I am developing a hardware interface, which has a lot of status updates, but I don't want to clutter main window with bunch on updating labels.

Using previous recommendations I added a layout (QVBoxLayout) named statusbar and added the additional QStatusbar to this.

ui code snippet:

<widget class="QWidget" name="verticalLayoutWidget">
    <property name="geometry">
     <rect>
      <x>-1</x>
      <y>251</y>
      <width>831</width>
      <height>21</height>
     </rect>
    </property>
    <layout class="QVBoxLayout" name="statusbar"/>
   </widget>
  </widget>

cpp code snippet:

//Add second statusbar
    statusCameraBar = new QStatusBar(this);
    ui_Spica->statusbar->addWidget(statusCameraBar); 

I could then add updating labels using addPermanentWidget to it. It displays well.

BUT: It is locked in place and does not resize with the MainWindow.

How can I lock it to the current QStatusBar of the MainWindow so that it moves and resizes with it, or is there a way to add an additional Row of widgets to the current QStatusbar.

I want to display 8 status labels in total spread over two levels.

Please help
Pat

[jsulm]

@UFSBoyden Is ui_Spica->statusbar itself in a layout?

[UFSBoyden]

It is the layout. I is inside the MainWindow layout. See below the whole ui code...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui version="4.0">
 <class>MainWindow</class>
 <widget class="QMainWindow" name="MainWindow">
  <property name="geometry">
   <rect>
    <x>0</x>
    <y>0</y>
    <width>828</width>
    <height>337</height>
   </rect>
  </property>
  <property name="windowTitle">
   <string>MainWindow</string>
  </property>
  <property name="styleSheet">
   <string notr="true">background: url(:/stars.png);</string>
  </property>
  <widget class="QWidget" name="centralWidget">
   <property name="enabled">
    <bool>true</bool>
   </property>
   <property name="autoFillBackground">
    <bool>false</bool>
   </property>
   <widget class="QWidget" name="verticalLayoutWidget">
    <property name="geometry">
     <rect>
      <x>-1</x>
      <y>251</y>
      <width>831</width>
      <height>21</height>
     </rect>
    </property>
    <layout class="QVBoxLayout" name="statusbar"/>
   </widget>
  </widget>
  <widget class="QMenuBar" name="menuBar">
   <property name="geometry">
    <rect>
     <x>0</x>
     <y>0</y>
     <width>828</width>
     <height>26</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
  </widget>
  <widget class="QToolBar" name="mainToolBar">
   <property name="enabled">
    <bool>true</bool>
   </property>
   <attribute name="toolBarArea">
    <enum>TopToolBarArea</enum>
   </attribute>
   <attribute name="toolBarBreak">
    <bool>false</bool>
   </attribute>
  </widget>
  <widget class="QStatusBar" name="statusInfoBar">
   <property name="autoFillBackground">
    <bool>true</bool>
   </property>
  </widget>
 </widget>
 <layoutdefault spacing="6" margin="11"/>
 <resources/>
 <connections/>
</ui>

And in addition the constructor cpp code...

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
    QMainWindow(parent),
    ui_Spica(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
    ui_Spica->setupUi(this);

    //Set init variables to NULL
    winAbout = NULL;
    winInfo = NULL;

    //Set app environment and values, names, icons and etc.
    setWindowTitle("Spica");
    setWindowIcon(QIcon(":/resources/boyden.ico"));

    QPixmap bkgnd(":/resources/stars.xpm");
    QPalette palette;
    palette.setBrush(QPalette::Background, bkgnd);
    this->setPalette(palette);

    //Add second statusbar
    statusCameraBar = new QStatusBar(this);
    ui_Spica->statusbar->addWidget(statusCameraBar);
    statusCameraBar->setAutoFillBackground(true);

    //Add labels to camera status bar
    camconnect = new QLabel("Camera Offline", this);
    camconnect->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
    camstatus = new QLabel("Camera Status", this);
    camstatus->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
    camtemp = new QLabel("Camera Temp", this);
    camtemp->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
    camdrive = new QLabel("Camera Drive", this);
    camdrive->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
    statusCameraBar->addPermanentWidget(camconnect, 1);
    statusCameraBar->addPermanentWidget(camstatus, 1);
    statusCameraBar->addPermanentWidget(camtemp, 1);
    statusCameraBar->addPermanentWidget(camdrive, 1);

    //Add labels to info status bar
    telconnect = new QLabel("Telescope Offline", this);
    telconnect->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
    fwconnect = new QLabel("Filter Wheel Offline", this);
    fwconnect->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
    lst = new QLabel("LST", this);
    lst->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);
    mjd = new QLabel("MJD", this);
    mjd->setFrameStyle(QFrame::Panel | QFrame::Sunken);

    ui_Spica->statusInfoBar->addPermanentWidget(telconnect, 1);
    ui_Spica->statusInfoBar->addPermanentWidget(fwconnect, 1);
    ui_Spica->statusInfoBar->addPermanentWidget(lst, 1);
    ui_Spica->statusInfoBar->addPermanentWidget(mjd, 1);

}