[Qt-interest] How to make a dialogue box with scroll bars?

[Robert Wood]

I can only speak from my experience! ;~)

Around eighteen months ago I knocked a database front end for my little 
company. I found accessing the mysql database and getting the data in 
and out much more straightforward than getting the layouts right! Even 
now I am not quite happy with the way it looks. I find it impossible to 
get some of the boxes I want a fixed size (yet some I get right), 
widgets in exactly the right place and I find spacers just impossible to 
understand. I played for hours with all this stuff, looked at little 
youtube videos and read my Qt book!

I will grant you I am poor at graphics and spacial awareness in general, 
but intuitive is the last word I would use for Designer.

I think sometimes you (one) forget(s), once you've been using a system 
for a long while, just how much knowledge you've picked up and how much 
of a learning curve you had at the start. When you just dip in and out 
of Designer (and Creator) like me, I think these difficult kinds of 
things take even more learning.

Either that or I'm just thick! ;~)

Cheers,

Rob

On 25/03/11 10:19, Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
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> Am 24.03.2011 um 13:07 schrieb Robert Wood<robert.wood at apostrophe.co.uk>:
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>> Many thanks again. :~) Designer is actually pretty complex in its own
>> right, I find a lot of the layout stuff really hard to get right.
>>
>
> Au contraire! Layouts in Qt are very easy and intuitive! And Qt Designer makes them intuitive and even easier to apply: simply select the widgets you want to layout (or the container widget), choose a suitable layout (the intuitive "Grid layout" covers most of my needs), et voilà!
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> Add "spacers" as needed and you get your desired layout in no time!
>
> If you have used "Card Layouts", "NorthEastSouthWest" layouts, "Gridbag" layouts and tried to figure out their proper parameters, you know what I am talking about! And I have yet to find a good GUI designer for Java which is free, performant, intuitive and most importantly, does not touch my OWN code in any way!
>
> Cheers, Oliver
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