Missing menuBar in PyQt5
I've been developing a GUI using PyQt5 and wanted to include a menu bar. When I went to code this feature, however, my menu wouldn't appear. Figuring my understanding on how to implement menu bars in PyQt5 was off, I looked for a pre-existing example online. With some tweaking I developed the following test case:
import sys
from PyQt5.QtGui import QIcon
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow, QMenuBar, QAction, qApp
class Example(QMainWindow):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
exitAction = QAction(QIcon('exit.png'), '&Exit', self)
exitAction.triggered.connect(qApp.quit)
menubar = self.menuBar()
fileMenu = menubar.addMenu('&Testmenu')
fileMenu.addAction(exitAction)
self.show()
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
ex = Example()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
When I run this, however, Testmenu is nowhere to be found.
I have also tried creating the menu bar (and the rest of my GUI layout) in QTCreator before converting the .ui file to an importable .py using pyuic5. I thought this would eliminate some programming mistake on my end, but the menubar still won't show. Any thoughts?
Edit:
Im running this code using Python 3.5 (Anaconda 4.1) from within a Jupyter notebook, version 4.1. I'm also using a Macbook running os 10.1l, PyQt 5.7 and Qt version 5.7.0.
I've realized that the menu bar will become responsive if I click off the application window and then click back onto the window - effectively unfocusing and the focusing the application. Armed with this information I realized that I am not the first to notice this problem (see https://github.com/robotology/yarp/issues/457). Unfortunately, I'm still not sure how to resolve the issue.
Answer
It's not a Qt and PyQt5 Bug.
I think your code is zetcode pyqt5 menubar tutorial. I experienced the exact same problem on Mac OS.
First solution is a trick. Use ' &Exit' instead of '&Exit'. Insert a space at the beginning of '&Exit' like this:
...
# exitAction = QAction(QIcon('exit.png'), '&Exit', self) # Not shown
exitAction = QAction(QIcon('exit.png'), ' &Exit', self)
...
The system-wide menubar of macOS reserves keywords such as "Exit", "Quit", and etc. For the same reason, yurisnm's example code shows only the menu items except "Quit" on Mac OS. Actually "Quit" has TextHeuristicRole, so overrides "Quit " behavior in the Application menu. When you click "Quit python" in "Python" menu, it does not quit and just print "quit triggered".
If you must use that name in other menu(e.g. File, Edit), you need to change the action name like above or use QAction::setMenuRole(...) like this:
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exitAction = QAction(QIcon('exit.png'), '&Exit', self)
print(exitAction.menuRole()) # It prints "1". QAction::TextHeuristicRole
exitAction.setMenuRole(QAction.NoRole)
...
Please read the following, it will be help you.