I use grid layout (horizontal and vertical too). I like the fact that when resizing the window fills the entire window contents. but this extension is poorly managed. I often want to change the size of only one column in grid layout without changing the size of the window. such as in Windows Explorer. there are two columns - the left list of directories and their contents to the left to the right. and i can always press mouse button therebetween and pulling change the mutual sizes of columns in relation to each other.
how can I do this in Qt?
You need to use a QSplitter rather than a QGridLayout in this specific case (where you just want 2 widgets shown together). QSplitters are draggable.
You are looking for QSplitter
(The following is the procedure in the Qt Designer)
Group your widgets, and click Lay Out Horizontally/Vertically in Splitter
Put this group into another layout (QGridLayout, for example) to automatically expand it.
Congrats! Your Layout is now draggable(from step1) and expandable(from step2).
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I want to make a GUI with QT Creator 4.9.1 ,my aim is to split my mainwindow into 5 areas(no multiple window), my question is how can i realize that, or better what is the best Layout solution for that?
I have allready tried to set a datagrid and add inside that grid 5 frames, the problem is that the first frame has the size of my whole datagrid and i can't resize it.
My next try was to add 5 different datagrid on my GUI but i can't set the size of the datagrid's in QT like wpf or forms.
My last try and my current solution is without any layout, i add 5 fame's inside my mainwindow but that isn't a good solution.
Inside visual studio i realize that with datagrids i create for every menu one grid and change the visibility when the user need a other (area 2).
friendly wishes sniffi
The suggestion to using dock windows may be a good one to investigate, particularly if you need to allow the user to resize or move things around. However, to get the layout you want with just layouts, the trick is to use multiple layouts.
Create a vertical layout for the left-hand side and add the four widgets to it. Create a horizontal layout and add the vertical layout in the first column and your tall, fifth widget to the second column. Apply the layout to your main windows, and that should give you roughly what you're looking for.
You'll almost certainly need to play with the row stretches on the vertical layout to get the proportions you want, and with the column stretches on the horizontal layout.
The alternate would be to create a grid layout where the widget on the right side spans four rows, but I think you'll be happier with the mix of the two layouts.
When I maximize my window, I want to restrict a vertical layout (and the entire row below it also) so that it has a specific size (lets say a width of 200). How can I achieve this? Below is what I get now. The buttons are stretched too far. I want them to keep a width of 200.
To stop the buttons stretching, use the following steps in Qt Designer:
click on scrollArea in the Object Inspector
click on Break Layout on the toolbar
click on scrollArea in the Object Inspector
click on Lay Out in a Grid on the toolbar
click on scrollAreaWidgetContents in the Object Inspector
scroll down to the bottom of the Property Editor
change layoutColumnStretch to 0,1
These steps should remove an empty column from the scroll-area grid-layout, and make the second column stretch to take up the available space when the window is resized.
You just need to restrict the maximum width of all widgets (in this case the buttons) within the layouts of this grid column to the expected size, else they'll just keep expanding. You may also have to fiddle the horizontal size policy; I seem to remember that buttons were a bit tricky in this regard (or was that the height?), but can't test it right now.
The layout size contraint you tried only applies to the layout's direct parent widget, if it has one, which isn't the case for the vertical layouts here.
I am trying to create a grid layout of images kind of like how google images does it.
I want to add fixed sized images left to right, top to bottom but I am having trouble is figuring out when adding another image to a row would make it not fit and then decide that that images should be placed in a new row.
Also when the window resizes it should move images into/from rows based on how many it can fit in.
Ive got a scroll area with a grid layout in it which is fine if I know what can fit, but I can't figure out how to make it move items if say the window width is shrunk, and say an item needs to be moved down 1 row which moves other etc.
Assuming you are using QWidgets I'd suggest you to use QListView which does the layouting for free, if you want more control on how items are displayed use a QItemDelegate. For QListView the view mode should be set to QListView::IconMode so that you have a grid of items and not a list.
But if you are using QtQuick things are much easier, a GridView with Image delegates would do what you want really quickly and using GPU power to build you UI.
Using Qt Designer, I created a QDialog which contains two QGroupBoxs. In one of them, there is a Check Box (QCheckBox) that can setVisible the other Group Box.
This works fine that only problem is that I want to be able to resize/adjust the size of the parent dialog accordingly (Regardless of what is the sizes of the two Control Boxes are).
I am familiar with this Answer. The only problem is when I click on Adjust Size, the parent dialog shrinks to be smaller than both group boxes and both boxes disappear. Any other suggestion would be great.
I am using qt designer and python. I want to make a layout where a user can drag widgets to control the size while at the same time scaling properly with the window. Basically all 3d modeling programs have this function, usually it has a top left right and perspective view. The user can drag the edges to resize each view and it will maintain that aspect ratio when the main window is resized. My question is similar to this: active resizing of widgets inside mainwindow but I would like to do it in qt designer.
So what I have found is the layout horizontal/vertical splitter. However I am only able to layout two widgets horizontally, and another two widgets horizontally, then grid layout. This makes it look similar to what I want except I want the top and bottom horizontal layouts to also be re-size able.
Thanks
Edit:
I have been able to do this with putting both horizontal split views in a group box and then splitting the two group boxes, however that makes each widget independent and does not let the user grab the middle axis to control all 4 views.
You are essentially asking for a splitter than works across two axes - no such standard widget exists. So you will have to create your own.