Qt add menuBar, menus, and sub menus to QMainWindow

Question

I have a hard time adding menu Bar, menus and sub menus to Qt QMainWindow programmatically.

The following code produces an error:

QWidget::setLayout: Attempting to set QLayout "" on QMainWindow "", which already has a layout

Notes : *.The main window come out without any menu or Layout (Empty!)

#include <QApplication>
#include <QApplication>
#include<QSlider>
#include<QSpinBox>
#include<QHBoxLayout>
#include<QWidget>
#include "mainwindow.h"
#include<QMenuBar>
#include<QStatusBar>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
    QMenuBar *menu = new QMenuBar;
            QMenu *file = new QMenu();
            file->addMenu("&File");
            menu->addMenu(file);
            QSlider *s1 = new QSlider(Qt::Horizontal);
               QSlider *s2 = new QSlider(Qt::Vertical);
               QSpinBox *sb = new QSpinBox;
               QHBoxLayout *L = new QHBoxLayout;
                L->addWidget(s1);
                L->addWidget(s2);
                L->addWidget(sb);
     QMainWindow *w = new QMainWindow;
     w->setLayout(L);
     w->show();
    return a.exec();
}

Solution 1

add layout to central widget:

#include <QApplication>
#include <QApplication>
#include<QSlider>
#include<QSpinBox>
#include<QHBoxLayout>
#include<QWidget>
#include<QMenuBar>
#include<QStatusBar>
#include <QMainWindow>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
    QMainWindow *w = new QMainWindow;
    QMenuBar *menu = new QMenuBar;
    QMenu *file = new QMenu();
    file->addMenu("&File");
    menu->addMenu(file);
    QWidget *centralwidget = new QWidget(w);
    w->setCentralWidget(centralwidget);
    QSlider *s1 = new QSlider(Qt::Horizontal, centralwidget);
    QSlider *s2 = new QSlider(Qt::Vertical, centralwidget);
    QSpinBox *sb = new QSpinBox;
    QHBoxLayout *L = new QHBoxLayout(centralwidget);
    L->addWidget(s1);
    L->addWidget(s2);
    L->addWidget(sb);
    w->show();
    return a.exec();
}

Solution 2

Each QMainWindow should have a central widget:

QMainWindow *w = new QMainWindow;
QWidget* centralWidget = new QWidget;
w->setCentralWidget( centralWidget );
centralWidget->setLayout(L);
w->show();