QScrollArea and floating widgets

Kobid

Hi. I have QScrollArea with a lot of buttons (or other widgets) created at runtime. The idea is that scroll area has only vertical scrollbar. If some widget can't fit in current line/row then it jump to next line/row. It should work like "word wrap". I can't show picture example, but lets say that you have web browser or better QPlainTextEdit. If it contains a big text and you change its size, then words are wrapped vertically. I need similar solution with QScrollArea and childs widgets. I'm playing with Frame and Grid layout properties but can't find solution.

Regards

clogwog

i could be wrong but it sounds like you are describing a flow layout
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/layouts-flowlayout.html ?

raven-worx

use QScrollArea::setWidgetResizable(true) and use the "Flow Layout":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/layouts-flowlayout.html.
You may need to tweak the layout to your needs...

Kobid

This is exactly what I needed! Thanks! Qt Creator should have it as one of it standard layouts

Kobid

Hm, flowlayout is working perfect but seems that it can't cooperate with QScollArea. I mean, when I change size of QScrollArea to very small (content in flowlayout can't fit anymore) scroll don't refresh (even if they are always on). This is my simple test:

@MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
QMainWindow(parent),
ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
ui->setupUi(this);

FlowLayout *l = new FlowLayout;
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
l->addWidget(new QPushButton("Test"));
ui->scrollArea->setLayout(l);

}@

MainWindow central widget has gridlayout so QScrollArea is stretched to main window size. When I resize main window, scrollbars don't update.

Edit: Ok, this topic solved problem with scrollbars:
http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/12233