Search⌘ K
AI Features
Home
Courses
A Guide to PyQt6 for Beginners

Creating a Menu Bar and Adding Actions

Explore how to create a menu bar in PyQt6 using QMainWindow and QMenuBar classes. Learn to add actions with keyboard shortcuts, understand menus like File, Edit, Tools, and Help, and implement dialog boxes and status bars to improve your application's usability and functionality.

We'll cover the following...

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 ...