Designing in QtCreator.

[Ketan Shah]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.
Actually my main window consists of many UI elements.
So while designing I am unable to locate that element which I want to edit/design/modify as there are many elements on top of each other.
What I want to know is while editing a particular element is there any way that can hide all other elements?

[goblincoding]

[quote author="Ketan Shah" date="1358329825"]Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
Actually my main window consists of many UI elements.
So while designing I am unable to locate that element which I want to edit/design/modify as there are many elements on top of each other.[/quote]

Could you post a screenshot of what you mean? I find it hard to visualise your problem.

[quote author="Ketan Shah" date="1358329825"]What I want to know is while editing a particular element is there any way that can hide all other elements?[/quote]

Not as far as I know...

[QMartin]

Hello!

I think you can do it with "foreach":http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt/containers.html#the-foreach-keyword, looking for all widgets except the current one, and calling ->hide() on every other. Maybe something like

@foreach (QWidget *widget, QApplication::topLevelWidgets())
{
if (!wigdet->hasFocus())
widget->hide();
}@

Hope it helps.

Regards

[QMartin]

Mmmm sorry, you want to do it before execution? I agree with goblincoding, the most similar thing to that is to disable every widget, but they aren't hidden.

[Ketan Shah]

!http://s13.postimage.org/4mrrvmjxz/test.pnghttp://(Test)!

I have uploaded the screenshot of my Ui file, please check it.
The Ui file consists of 3 groupboxes, each groupbox contains some elements.
The problem is when I want to modify/redesign GroupBox1, I am not able to see it.
So my question is how can I hide GroupBox and GroupBox2, when I want to redesign GroupBox1? The same goes for other elements too.
Hope now my question is clear.

[goblincoding]

OK, now it all makes sense. Your problem is that you aren't making use of Qt's layout system. Have a look at the "widgets and layouts":https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/widgets-and-layouts.html documentation and pay special attention to "layout management":https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/layout.html

That should help you solve your problem :)

EDIT: If you really want to have widgets "on top of each other", have a look at "QStackedWidget":https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qstackedwidget.html

[pke62]

Or even "QStackedLayout":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qstackedlayout.html.

[Ketan Shah]

Hi,

Thanks @goblincoding and @pke62 for your replies. It worked.
But now I have one more problem while using QStackedWidget.
How can I hide the borders of QStackedWidget that appears on all the four sides of it?

[goblincoding]

If I understand you correctly, it sounds as if you still aren't using layouts correctly, please see "this previous post":https://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/23776/#110704 for links to more information.

[pke62]

[quote author="goblincoding" date="1358514448"] If you really want to have widgets "on top of each other", have a look at "QStackedWidget":https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qstackedwidget.html[/quote]

In the documentation for QStackedWidget referenced above by goblincoding, look for:

setFrameShadow ( Shadow )
setFrameShape ( Shape )
setFrameStyle ( int )