[c++] How to change the Title of the window in Qt?

How to change the title of the window in Qt? (Both for QDialog and QMainWindow.)

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For new Qt users this is a little more confusing than it seems if you are using QT Designer and .ui files.

Initially I tried to use ui->setWindowTitle, but that doesn't exist. ui is not a QDialog or a QMainWindow.

The owner of the ui is the QDialog or QMainWindow, the .ui just describes how to lay it out. In that case, you would use:

this->setWindowTitle("New Title");

I hope this helps someone else.


You can also modify the windowTitle attribute in Qt Designer.


int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
    MainWindow w;
    w.setWindowTitle("Main Page");
    w.show();
    return a.exec();
}

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I know this is years later but I ran into the same problem. The solution I found was to change the window title in main.cpp. I guess once the w.show(); is called the window title can no longer be changed. In my case I just wanted the title to reflect the current directory and it works.

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) 
{
QApplication a(argc, argv);
MainWindow w;
w.setWindowTitle(QDir::currentPath());
w.show();

return a.exec();
}

system("title WhateverYouWantToNameIt");

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