QComboBox Entries not placed correctly

MaxDevI

EDIT: Fixed!

The problem was that I did not instantiate the combo box with its parent.

I did

QComboBox *myBox = new QComboBox();

where adding the parent as so...

QComboBox *myBox = new QComboBox(parent);

completely fixed the problem.
EDIT^^

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My QComboBox starts out correctly as seen in picture #1. I add items to the box, but when displaying the items, they appear too close together as in picture #2.

I want it to appear normally, as in picture #3. What am I doing wrong?

One weird thing to note is that it used to appear correctly before I added it to a particular layout.

Thanks for any help.

MaxDevI

Fixed!

The problem was that I did not instantiate the combo box with its parent.

I did

QComboBox *myBox = new QComboBox();

where adding the parent as so...

QComboBox *myBox = new QComboBox(parent);

completely fixed the problem.

VRonin

@MaxDevI said in QComboBox Entries not placed correctly:

One weird thing to note is that it used to appear correctly before I added it to a particular layout.

That's a nice clue!

Could you post the layout code and where you add the combobox to it?

MaxDevI

Fixed!

The problem was that I did not instantiate the combo box with its parent.

I did

QComboBox *myBox = new QComboBox();

where adding the parent as so...

QComboBox *myBox = new QComboBox(parent);

completely fixed the problem.

VRonin

@MaxDevI When you add a widget to a layout it should reparent it, if you are using a custom layout I'd consider checking its internal handling of parent/child

MaxDevI

@VRonin Thanks, I am just using a QGridLayout inside a QVBoxLayout as the main layout. Not sure where the child/parent handling problem came about.