Landing Page Button Organization - qt

Question

I am using a template to create an app using QT Creator and QML and am hoping to create a landing page that allows users to select which "page" they want to navigate to by clicking an icon.
I've figured out how to get a button on the landing page and have it open another page. However, I am using x and y positions of the button and it doesn't scale correctly when the window size changes.
Ultimately, I am trying to put 6 buttons on the landing page in a way that scales correctly.
I have attached an image of my ideal Landing Page design and have also attached code for what I already have.
I hope I was able to explain this well enough. Please let me know if I can clarify anything.
import QtQuick 2.2
import QtQuick 2.6
import QtQuick.Controls 1.1
import QtQuick.Controls.Styles 1.4
import "components" as Components
//BACKGROUND COLOR
Rectangle {
signal signInClicked(string tourId)
color: "#242424"
AnimatedImage {
anchors.fill: parent
source: app.landingpageBackground
fillMode: Image.PreserveAspectCrop
visible: source > ""
}
Rectangle {
anchors.fill: parent
gradient: Gradient {
GradientStop { position: 0.0; color: "#00000000";}
GradientStop { position: 1.0; color: "#00000000";}
}
}
//TITLE TEXT
Text {
id: titleText
anchors {
left: parent.left
right: parent.right
top: parent.top
topMargin: app.height/10
}
font.family: app.customTitleFont.name
text: app.info.title
font {
pointSize: 60
pointSize: app.titleFontSize * 1.4
}
color: "#00000000"
horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
wrapMode: Text.Wrap
}
Button {
id: signInButton
anchors {
horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
bottom: parent.bottom
bottomMargin: 60 * app.scaleFactor
}
opacity: 0.0
style: ButtonStyle {
id: btnStyle
property real width: parent.width
label: Text {
id: lbl
text: signInButton.text
anchors.centerIn: parent
verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter
horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
width: parent.width
maximumLineCount: 2
elide: Text.ElideRight
wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
color: app.titleColor
font.family: app.customTextFont.name
font.pointSize: app.baseFontSize
}
background: Rectangle {
color: Qt.darker(app.headerBackgroundColor, 1.2)
border.color: app.titleColor
radius: app.scaleFactor * 2
}
}
height: implicitHeight < app.units(56) ? app.units(56) : undefined // set minHeight = 64, otherwise let it scale by content height which is the default behavior
width: Math.min(0.5 * parent.width, app.units(250))
text: qsTr("Let's Play!")
MouseArea{
anchors.fill: parent
onClicked: {
signInClicked("");
}
}
NumberAnimation{
id: signInButtonAnimation
target: signInButton
running: false
properties: "opacity"
from: 0.0
to: 1.0
easing.type: Easing.InQuad
duration: 1000
}
}
AboutPage {
id: aboutPage
}
NewsAndUpdates {
id: newsPage
}
ProgramsPage {
id: programsPage
}
Connections {
target: app
onUrlParametersChanged: {
if (app.urlParameters.hasOwnProperty("appid")) {
signInClicked(app.urlParameters.appid)
}
}
}
Component.onCompleted: {
signInButtonAnimation.start()
}
}

Answer 1

I think this doc should help you. You haven't really defined what you want very well, but I'll show you some examples so you can hopefully take from it what you need.
QML has the concept of "positioners" and "layouts". Positioners help automatically position your objects neatly on the screen. And Layouts try to do that too, but can also stretch your objects to fill available space.
Row:
You can arrange all your buttons in a row and center the row horizontally.
Row {
anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
Button { id: btn1 }
Button { id: btn2 }
...
}
Grid:
Similarly, Grid is a positioner that arranges objects into a grid:
Grid {
anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
columns: 3
Button { id: btn1 }
Button { id: btn2 }
...
}
GridLayout:
A GridLayout is just like a Grid, but it can also resize the objects to fill up the space. My opinion is layouts can do more, but they're often trickier to use. In this example, the first button should be a fixed size, while the second button should fill up the remaining width.
GridLayout {
anchors.fill: parent
rows: 2
Button { id: btn1; Layout.preferredWidth: 200 }
Button { id: btn2; Layout.fillWidth: true}
...
}