[Qt-interest] QGroupBox with a MultiCell Widget

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "AP" == Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> writes:

   AP> On 28.04.09 23:13:24, Jake Colman wrote:
   >> 

   >> I want to layout a QGroupBox in a grid but I need one of the
   >> widgets to be multi-cell the way it would be in a QGridLayout.
   >> The QGroupBox API does not support this.  Is there a way to create
   >> the QGroupBox and have it use a QGridLayout that contains my
   >> widgets?  If I create the QGroupBox without a layout, I cannot use
   >> its layout() method to be the parent of a QGridLayout() since
   >> layout() returns NULL.  If I create the QGroupBox() with some
   >> bogus layout (e.g., 1 horizontal strip) the layout() method will
   >> return a value.  Is it legitimate that use that value as the
   >> parent of a QGridLayout and will that QGridLayout supercede the
   >> bogus layout in the QGroupBox?

   AP> Why not use QGroupBox::setLayout( new GridLayout() )? That should
   AP> work just fine (and thats actually what happens in
   AP> designer-generated code when you create a groupbox and set a
   AP> gridlayout on it).

If it only it were that simple...

I am still on Qt 3.x and setLayout() is not an exposed method of
QWidget.

...Jake


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