[Interest] Writing custom Qt Widgets is overly complicated

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On 4/28/20, Jonathan Purol <contact at folling.de> wrote:
> The last approach seemed rather clever, and it worked pretty well. I
> could put widgets into the textfield and align them at the left. First I
> tried to do this manually, then I opted for an HBoxLayout.

I don't really understand where you're having trouble. The text
margins? I don't see why those should be dynamic. Set them to a low
number (or zero) and be done with it.

This is how I'd implement your Tag Text Field:
//pseudo-code (also it's static, not dynamic: just showing the end
resulting layout):

class TagTextField : public QWidget
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    TagTextField(QWidget *parent)
      : QWidget(parent)
    {
        QHBoxLayout *myLayout = new QHBoxLayout();

        myLayout->addWidget(new TagWidget("Some Tag"), 0, Qt::AlignLeft);
        myLayout->addWidget(new TagWidget("Another Tag"), 0, Qt::AlignLeft);
        myLayout->AddWidget(new QLineEdit(), 1, Qt::AlignRight); //the
1 here means stretch

        setLayout(myLayout);
    }
};
class TagWidget : public QWidget
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    TagWidget(const QString &tag, QWidget *parent = nullptr)
      : QWidget(parent)
    {
        QHBoxLayout *myLayout = new QHBoxLayout();

        myLayout->addWidget(new QLabel(tag), 0 /*you might want to use
1 here for stretch*/, Qt::AlignLeft);
        myLayout->addWidget(new QPushButton("x"), 0, Qt::AlignRight);

        setLayout(myLayout);
    }
};


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