I am creating a UI in Qt that has a QDockWidget containing a QPushButton and QLineEdit. Please refer to the attached mock-up. I have created the widget components and successfully got them up and running. However they are not positioned the way I want them to. Both the elements should float to the left making the extra space to the right stretch when the window is resized.
The code-
this->searchField = new QLineEdit; //"this" is a QDockWidget subclassed Object
searchField->setFixedWidth(200);
mainMenu = new Menu();
QHBoxLayout *layout= new QHBoxLayout;
QSpacerItem *filler = new QSpacerItem(1000, 10);
layout->addWidget(mainMenu->getMenuBar());
layout->addWidget(this->searchField);
layout->addSpacerItem(filler);
Any suggestion or help would be awesome!
Thanks for your time :)
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/layout.html
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qboxlayout.html#addStretch
void QBoxLayout::addStretch ( int stretch = 0 )
Adds a stretchable space (a QSpacerItem) with zero minimum size and stretch factor stretch to the end of this box layout.
So this is what your new code would look like:
this->searchField = new QLineEdit;
searchField->setFixedWidth(200);
mainMenu = new Menu();
QHBoxLayout *layout= new QHBoxLayout;
layout->addWidget(mainMenu->getMenuBar());
layout->addWidget(this->searchField);
layout->addStretch(); // Added this
Hope that helps.
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I've created a QStackedLayout in which I added 2 buttons, but I want to shift one button to the right corner insted of the left corner as you can see in the picture below:
What I've done so far:
QStackedLayout *stackedLayout = new QStackedLayout;
stackedLayout->addWidget(ui->pushButton_2);
stackedLayout->addWidget(ui->pushButton);
stackedLayout->setStackingMode(QStackedLayout::StackAll);
Place the QPushbutton in a container (i.e. QWidget) that allows it to be centered with an additional layout.
If I understand properly, you want a QPushButton above an other. The one above must be smaller and at the top right corner?
QVBoxLayout * vlayout_PB_under = new QVBoxLayout();
QHBoxLayout * hlayout_PB_under = new QHBoxLayout();
QPushButton * PB_x = new QPushButton("X",this);
QPushButton * PB_test = new QPushButton("test",this);
PB_x ->setFixedSize(20,20);
PB_test ->setFixedSize(200,200);
PB_test ->setLayout(vlayout_PB_under );
vlayout_PB_under ->addLayout(hlayout_PB_under);
hlayout_PB_under->addWidget(PB_x );
vlayout_PB_under ->setAlignment(Qt::AlignRight);
hlayout_PB_under->setAlignment(Qt::AlignTop );
The purpose of a QStackLayout is to allow switching easily the visible widget at a same position, not to display at the same time multiple widget...
Read the documentation : "where only one widget is visible at a time"
I've created a a widget in which I've placed two buttons using a layout and placed it inside a table widget's cell. The thing is that I'm changing the size of the table and I want to shift the placement of the widget without deleting them and re-initializing them from the beginning because I already assigned them actions on click (I think that the application would crash in this situation)
Code:
btn = new QPushButton[horzHeaders.size()];
btn[j].setParent(ui->tableWidget);
btn[j].setIcon(QIcon("./save.png"));
btn[j].setVisible(true);
btn_Load = new QPushButton[horzHeaders.size()];
btn_Load[j].setParent(ui->tableWidget);
btn_Load[j].setIcon(QIcon("./upload.png"));
btn_Load[j].setVisible(true);
lay = new QHBoxLayout[horzHeaders.size()];
lay[j].addWidget(&btn[j]);
lay[j].addWidget(&btn_Load[j]);
QWidget *w = new QWidget[horzHeaders.size()];
w[j].setLayout(&lay[j]);
ui->tableWidget->setCellWidget(j,vertHeaders.size() - 1, &w[j]);
You can add and remove widgets from a layout anytime you want
QWidget *widget = new QWidget();
QPushButton *button = new QPushButton();
QHBoxLayout *Hbox = new QHBoxLayout();
QVBoxLayout *Vbox= new QVBoxLayout();
Hbox->addWidget(button);
// use it till the window is resized
//and then check with an if-statement if the window is resized or not
Hbox->removeWidget(button); // remove from the button from layout
layout()->removeAt(widget); //remove the widget's current layout
Vbox->addWidget(button); // add button widget to vertical layout
widget->setLayout(Vbox); // Give it a new layout
widget->setLayout(Vbox);
If this didn't answer your question then ask in the comments.
I have a Qt class which inherits from QMainWindow. The constructor of the class creates two widgets which are added to a horizontal layout object as follows:
MyWindow::MyWindow()
{
resize(QDesktopWidget().availableGeometry(this).size());
display = new MyWidget(this);
display->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Expanding,
QSizePolicy::Expanding);
current = new MyWidget(this);
current->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Expanding,
QSizePolicy::Expanding);
QHBoxLayout *layout = new QHBoxLayout();
layout->addWidget(display);
layout->addWidget(current);
QFrame* frame = new QFrame();
frame->setFrameShape(QFrame::StyledPanel);
frame->setLayout(layout);
setCentralWidget(frame);
show();
}
This currently shows the widget side of side of each other. However, what I would like to do is have one of the widgets take 30% of the horizontal space while the other one occupies the other 70%. I would also like the widgets to expand or contract if one resizes the main window but keeping these ratios.
When you place a widget into a layout you can specify its stretch factor:
QHBoxLayout *layout = new QHBoxLayout();
layout->addWidget(display, 3);
layout->addWidget(current, 7);
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qboxlayout.html#addWidget
I'm a Qt newbie. I want to display 2 images side-by-side using Qt. Using Qt's Image Viewer Example, I want to add another scrollable image display, such that both images are displayed side-by-side.
The example code has this snippet for the ctor:
ImageViewer::ImageViewer()
{
imageLabel = new QLabel;
imageLabel->setBackgroundRole(QPalette::Base);
imageLabel->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Ignored, QSizePolicy::Ignored);
imageLabel->setScaledContents(true);
scrollArea = new QScrollArea;
scrollArea->setBackgroundRole(QPalette::Dark);
scrollArea->setWidget(imageLabel);
setCentralWidget(scrollArea);
...
If I understand it correctly, I want to get imageLabel to be only half width of the screen while another QLabel is displayed on the other half.
How can I do this?
Thanks.
If I understand correctly, this here should suffice:
// Left image
imageLabelLeft = new QLabel;
imageLabelLeft->setBackgroundRole(QPalette::Base);
imageLabelLeft->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Ignored, QSizePolicy::Ignored);
imageLabelLeft->setScaledContents(true);
scrollAreaLeft = new QScrollArea;
scrollAreaLeft->setBackgroundRole(QPalette::Dark);
scrollAreaLeft->setWidget(imageLabelLeft);
// Right image
imageLabelRight = new QLabel;
imageLabelRight->setBackgroundRole(QPalette::Base);
imageLabelRight->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Ignored, QSizePolicy::Ignored);
imageLabelRight->setScaledContents(true);
scrollAreaRight = new QScrollArea;
scrollAreaRight->setBackgroundRole(QPalette::Dark);
scrollAreaRight->setWidget(imageLabelRight);
// Do the layout
QWidget *centralWidget = new QWidget;
QHBoxLayout *layout = new QHBoxLayout(centralWidget);
layout->addWidget(scrollAreaLeft);
layout->addWidget(scrollAreaRight);
setCentralWidget(centralWidget);
I understand how to add a scrollArea to a particular widget. However in my case Qwidget has multiple child widgets and these are all set using QVBoxLayout. Now how can I add a scroll bar in this case? Here QWidget is not the center widget, its one of the pages of the TabWidget. My code looks like:
QTabWIdget *center = new QTabWidget; setCentralWIdget(center);
xTab = new QWidget;
formLayout = new QFormLayout; formLayout->addWidget(...); formLayout->addWidget(...); formLayout->addWidget(...); formLayout->addWidget(...);
xTab->setLayout(formLayout);
Now how can I set the scrollBar to xTab? I tried using
scrollArea = new QScrollArea;
scrollArea->setWidget(xTab);
however, this isn't working.
Any idea/suggestions are helpful and appreciated.
Have you tried using QScrollArea as the tab page?
QTabWIdget *center = new QTabWidget; setCentralWIdget(center);
xTab = new QScrollArea;
formLayout = new QFormLayout; formLay....
xTab->setLayout(formLayout);
center->addTab(xTab, "XXX Tab");
I had success using the following:
scroll=new QScrollArea(mainWindow->centralWidget);
scroll->setGeometry(mainWindow->tabWidget->geometry());
scroll->setWidget(mainWindow->tabWidget);
scroll->show();
The QScrollArea defines where the scrollable widget will appear. If parent is 0, it's a non-modal window. setGeometry sets the QScrollArea instance to the desired dimensions (that of the tab). setWidget defines what widget the QScrollArea will actually be scrolling.