How to set QMainWindow title

Question

How do I set the title of a QMainWindow?

I tried googling and found setCaption(), but it appears it no longer works in Qt 4.

score 67 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 26 '19 at 17:55

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The method is setWindowTitle():

setWindowTitle(const QString &)

edited Oct 26 '19 at 17:55

Owen

answered Dec 28 '10 at 22:01

Edward Strange

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setCaption is supposed to do the same thing, though its deprecated now which I guess due to bad API naming. – ismail Dec 28 '10 at 22:05
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Well, I was trying setTitle(), and when it didn't work, tried searching the Public Functions of QMainWindow in the Qt Assistant for title and it didn't find this. Anyway, thanks. – houbysoft Dec 28 '10 at 22:13
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The confusion could come from the fact that `setWindowTitle` is a method of `QWidget`, not `QMainWindow`, even though the concept of “window title” is not even applicable to most widgets. – bdesham Oct 02 '14 at 19:55
@bdesham, actually you can make a window out of any widget if you just tell it to exec(). If you actually really want to do that is another thing. – Veda Feb 13 '17 at 18:20

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