The classes IlvMenuBar and IlvToolBar define menu bars and toolbars.

These classes are very similar. The only difference is that IlvToolBar provides interactive features that the IlvMenuBar does not support, such as tooltips and gadgets.

You can use gadgets as toolbar items using the member function setGraphic. These gadgets are active, which means that they react to user events.

You can add a gadget to a toolbar with the member function insertGraphic.

Figure 13.13 shows a toolbar with a combo box.

When the user clicks a gadget in a toolbar, the gadget is given the focus and all keyboard events are directly sent to it. See Focus Management.

You can force the focus to be given to a specific item with setFocusItem and retrieve the gadget that has the focus with getFocusItem.

Menu items in a toolbar can be associated with a tooltip. A tooltip is short explanatory text that is displayed when the user places the mouse over its associated menu item.

To set a tooltip for a menu item, use setToolTip. To disable tooltips, call useToolTips with its parameter set to IlFalse.