I am new in Qt (PyQt) and I am trying to make an app whose functions will be executed from menubars/system trays. A perfect example is show here:
I cannot find a good resource on how I can do this. Can someone advice.
Thanks.
I am new in Qt (PyQt) and I am trying to make an app whose functions will be executed from menubars/system trays. A perfect example is show here:
I cannot find a good resource on how I can do this. Can someone advice.
Thanks.
I think you are looking for working with QMenu
and QMainWindow
for the menu part, at least.
Here you can find a C++ example:
Menus Example
and here a PyQt4 example:
Menus and Toolbars in PyQt4
Here is the code inline for your convenience:
import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui
class Example(QtGui.QMainWindow):
def __init__(self):
super(Example, self).__init__()
self.initUI()
def initUI(self):
exitAction = QtGui.QAction(QtGui.QIcon('exit.png'), '&Exit', self)
exitAction.setShortcut('Ctrl+Q')
exitAction.setStatusTip('Exit application')
exitAction.triggered.connect(QtGui.qApp.quit)
self.statusBar()
menubar = self.menuBar()
fileMenu = menubar.addMenu('&File')
fileMenu.addAction(exitAction)
self.setGeometry(300, 300, 300, 200)
self.setWindowTitle('Menubar')
self.show()
def main():
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
ex = Example()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
As for the QSystemTrayIcon part, you could write something like this:
def main():
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
w = QtGui.QWidget()
trayIcon = QtGui.QSystemTrayIcon(QtGui.QIcon("Bomb.xpm"), w)
menu = QtGui.QMenu(parent)
exitAction = menu.addAction("Foo")
trayIcon.setContextMenu(menu)
trayIcon.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()