[Qt-interest] QGroupBox with a MultiCell Widget

[Jake Colman]

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

   AP> On 29.04.09 09:00:50, Jake Colman wrote:
   >> >>>>> "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.

   AP> Well, then simply construct the QGridLayout with the QGroupBox as
   AP> parent, it'll set itself as layout for the groupbox and as you
   AP> said the groupbox doesn't have a layout yet at that time this
   AP> should be perfectly ok.

Andrea,

So you are suggesting the following:

  QGroupBox* GB = new QGroupBox( "Definition", this, "GB" );
  QGridLayout* GL = new QGridLayout( GB, 2, 5, 0, -1, "GL" );

How do I create the widgets that are supposed to be contained in the GB
and laid out in specific cells of the GL?  Are the widgets parented by
GB and then I use GL->addWidget() to position them in the grid?  I
played with different things but cannot get it to work quite right.

Thanks.

...Jake


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