How to add "status bar" to QT widget - without using QTDesigner-CodePudding

I am creating QT QEditText widget (C ) dynamically at run time. I cannot use "static ways" AKA QTDesigner to add / design the widget - it is NOT a form. I know "status bar" is used as default in "MainWindow". I want to add same functions in QTextEdit.

The QT doc has an example of C code on how to use "status bar" in MainWindow - that is of little help.

I have added this code to the QTextEdit constructor

  childStatusBar = new QStatusBar();
childStatusBar->setStatusTip(" Show current copy drag  and drop text");
childStatusBar->showNormal();
childStatusBar->showMessage("Status test message");

It compiles and runs, but there is no "status bar". I do not know what is missing in my code and would appreciate an assistance in solving this issue.

(Links , references to code examples would be helpful)

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CodePudding user response：

Just create a Qt MainWindow or Widget example and create a statusbar on it. Build the project and you can find your ui_...h in your build directory. Open it and find the QStatusBar widget. You can copy from there.

Note: Layouts are very important in Qt. So don't forget main-widget / main-window main layout and it's relation with statusbar. And also statusbar's layout.

CodePudding user response：

As we can see in

and also QTextEdit has a setStatusTip function that you can add "Show current copy drag and drop text" there instead of childStatusBar.