c++ - Why can't I add a QGridLayout to a QMainWindow?

Question

I've created a QMainWindow class. I coded a QGridLayout for the main layout, but whenever I add setLayout(grid); this error comes up:

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

As far as I know, I haven't added any sort of layout in my code before.

I'm using Qt Creator and using Linux (ubuntu 12.10).

Answer 1

What you can do is create a QWidget set it as the central widget and give this one a layout. QMainWindow has its own layout already to place statusbar and mainmenu thus you can't set another one directly.