So this is the effect what I want to get. Left and right parts of a label should have different filling/stroke colors (actually stroke size is also changed). And the proportion may change dynamically, and can be some position inside a letter.
I know I should override the paintEvent but still have no idea of how to do it.
Any ideas?
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I am looking for a way to draw a node on top of the neighbouring ones in a HBox. Default behaviour means it is drawn on top of the previous one, but that also means the next one is drawn on top of it. For other containers, one could use the Node.toFront(), but changing the position of the node in the list containing a HBox's children also changes the actual position in the HBox, which is unwanted behaviour in my case. I appreciate any help, thank you.
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The overlapping occurs when applying a DropShadow effect on an Ellipse and wrapping them in a StackPane along with a Text. It looks like the effect has a weird interaction with the HBox, as it works as intended without it. After adding the effect, it allocates more horizontal space for the ellipse, but not enough to cover the margins of the effect. Also, when clicking anywhere in the whole right half of the black rectangle, the mouse click is dispatched to the stackPane event handler, not to the rectangle's.
This happens
In VBox and HBox, the Node.toFront() and Node.toBack() functions will change the layout, so they are not usable. If you are using JavaFX 9+,you can use the viewOrder commands to change the rendering order of the Node in its Parent:
Node.getViewOrder()
Node.setViewOrder()
The default value of viewOrder is 0, so setting it to -1 will render it above all others. You can customize this to get specific orders. It also has a CSS property -fx-view-order.
I'm making an app that needs the following background. Trouble is, I'm not sure how to position the three buttons inside the circle.
Use LinearLayout(vertical), put all the buttons there and use the View subclass called Space, above, inbetween and below the buttons. Then adjust layout:weight until you get the desired proportion. Don't forget to set height to 0 for layout:weight to take effect.
I have a few labels in a horizontal layout, and I want to enable/disable a border around the labels at certain times. I can do this using stylesheets, but the problem is that every time I enable/disable a border this way, the label shifts left or right in the layout by a few pixels.
This is an annoying artifact that takes away from the look of the UI. Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening?
Thanks!
Marlon
If your labels are on a plain background, then don't enable/disable the borders, just change the border colour to match the background.
For those of you who haven't been reading my Qt questoins, I am learning Qt for a project. I have only limited experience with GUI design at all, and not in Qt.
I've got a horizontal layout that I want to populate with some buttons. I can feed these buttons in just fine, but my formerly-square buttons are stretched horizontally to take up more space.
I want to let the layout manager determine the best way to size these buttons, but I also want their original proportions to remain intact. For instance, if I start would with 32X32 buttons that need to shrink to fit all of them in the layout, I want them to shrink proportionally so that the width to height scale is maintained. 20X20, 16X16, 12X12 would all be just fine, but 24X16 would be an example of dimensions that are unacceptable.
I've tinkered with size policies on the buttons and stretch options. I'm not seeing, even after reading the QPushButton and QHboxLayout classes how to do this. How is it accomplished?
Thanks.
As long as I understand the question correctly, I think what you want is QBoxLayout::addStretch(). This will add a spacer object that fills the unused space. So the buttons will have their ideal size and the spacer will fill the rest. You can try experimenting with this in Designer, it's easier than the write/compile/run cycle.
You should take a look at the answers to this question. This is a recap of my answer there.
You need to create a custom derivative of QLayoutItem, which overrides bool hasHeightForWidth() and int heightForWidth( int width ) to preserve the aspect ratio. You could either pass the button in and query it, or you could just set the ratio directly. You'll also need to make sure the widget() function returns a pointer to the proper button.
Once that is done, you can add a layout item to a layout in the same manner you would a widget. So when your button gets added, change it to use your custom layout item class.
I haven't actually tested any of this, so it is a theoretical solution at this point. I don't know of any way to do this solution through designer, if that was desired.
Take a look at this demo, how do they accomplish the Inline Changes feature? To me it looks like they are floating a movieclip over the textarea.
What I can't figure out is how they anchored the movieclip to stay in the correct position. If you type something before the movieclip it moves position along with the text, the movieclips even move to the next line when the text word wraps. Does anyone have an idea?
What I think they're doing is keeping track of the index the sprite is representing. Then they have a nice function that moves the sprite to the correct position given the size of the textbox and font. All you need to do after that is bind the positioning function to changes made to the textbox and you've got that effect. Doesn't seem too complicated, as there are already font size/position functions available.
EDIT: Notice how you cannot type code in between the overlapping regions.