Menubar - PyQt with Python GUI Programming tutorial 5

In this PyQT4 GUI application development tutorial, we cover how to add a menu-bar to our application.

[jorgeluis]

This is a great example of good youtube tutorials (or tuts) - 5 minutes, talk FAST (we are not stupid), and pack all of the main points without sweating the small details.
You sir, rock.

[shashankns]

For people who are using Ubuntu, the menuBar doesn't appear because it's a feature of Ubuntu's Unity shell called global menu bar.
So, if you want your menu to take its place on top of a window regardless of graphical shell preferences, you should use Qt menu bar instead of native one:

mainMenu = QtGui.QMenuBar()

self.setMenuBar(mainMenu)

fileMenu = mainMenu.addMenu('File')

[PratikAnand]

Loving your Qt series. I needed to learn Qt basics quickly for a project and you are teaching it the best way. The ~6 min per topic format really does wonders as the viewer doesn't feel overwhelmed. Keep it up.

[ihswap]

Thanks for these tutorials also perfect timing 4 days ago I was looking into PyQt so first thing I did was look at your channel for tutorial and coincidentally you posted your first PyQt video that same day.

[winecheese]

6:38 that evil laugh Lol...
This guy is awesome

[lukab]

You saved my life man, I almost started screaming here trying to figure out PySide. Thanks!

[needmorebrain]

Hi! What is the "&" for? Am I missing out on something?

[shayne]

your laugh at the Q shortcut was amazing

[kjfinnegan]

This series has been really useful. Just wondering what you recommend for the best way for a menu option to load a new page/screen (i.e. a new set of widgets displayed within the same window). Obviously quite a common design feature of any application but I can’t find much info on how to do it with PyQt. Stacked widgets maybe?

[veganath]

Great tut's thanks. Do you recommend an IDE that for newbies has intellisense drop down prompting for the methods that are available..etc?

[NitinChauhan-vhyk]

Hi Harrison! Loving this series. Need to ask one question. While setting the shortcut, if I place spaces between Ctrl and Q, the shortcut is neither displayed in the menu, nor does it work. Why is that?

[hedgehogurchin]

great narration / teaching style. This is great.

[chriiisle]

if anyone is using Mac OS, you may need to add: in order to display the menu bar. I found that this fixed the issue that arose for me when the menu bar was not displaying properly.

[prithvirajkadiyala]

Hey, I have a quick question.
I am designing an application for the touch screen. While designing for that I ran into the issue that the "File" menuItem was too small to click and every time I had to take out stylus or something to click on it. Is there any way to scale it up?

[shabdarana]

I have the same codes. but when i run it using "python filename.py" in the terminal it say syntax error in i am pretty sure i am running the same code.

[eddwinnas]

Hey Harrison, my goal for the past couple months has been converting your tkinter bitcoin program to PYQT, is that where you are heading with this?

[aysershuhaib]

thanks a lot
i want to ask what's the difference between (trigger and triggered).
cause i found that i can't use (trigger.connect)
thx

[Dangerops]

Why are some of the strings written as "&string"? I ran this code (I am using Spyder) and it prints the '&' symbol along with the word to the output. For example, my output is "$File" whereas in the video the output is just "File".

[RuneOsnes]

I was laughing so hard! You crack me up! Chat app that exits on a vowel key! LOL!!!

[geremachek]

how would you use while loops in PyQt? They seem to make the window disappear