Strange behavior of widgets in QVBoxLayout

MasterBLB

Hey Qt devs

I've encountered a strange issue - though I've added a vertical QSpacerItem the space is not fully consumed by it.
1st, a picture:
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legend:
red rectangle - widget the question is about
green rectangle - parent QVboxLayout which contains widget(s) with the above layout, and a spacer item
blue elements - QSpacerItem

I've adde to the widget illustrated by these grey tables with white borders own QVBoxLayout:

   inventoryLayout = new QVBoxLayout;
   inventoryLayout->setDirection(QVBoxLayout::TopToBottom);
   inventoryLayout->setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);
   inventoryLayout->setSpacing(0);
   setLayout(inventoryLayout);

after that I add widgets into the layout like this:

    for (int cnt = 0; cnt < 6; cnt++)
    {
        InventoryItemWidget *item = new InventoryItemWidget(this);
        inventoryLayout->addWidget(item);
    }    
    inventoryLayout->addStretch();

this seems to work correctly, these InventoryItemWidgets are pushed towards top edge of InventoryWidget.
Strange things start to happen when I try to stretch the window vertically - it looks like the spacer created by inventoryLayout->addStretch() went from the red layout into the green layout, and places between "Strip stuff" button and InventoryWidget. Here is screenshot how it looks like:
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If I will remove that line the widgets behave correctly, though these M Laser objects are of course not aligned to the top edge of inventory.
What detail about layouts/widgets I'm missing?

Definitions in the .ui files:
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MasterBLB

Hmm no one have a clue?

dheerendra

Can you share your images & workable example somewhere ? Images seems to be missing.

MasterBLB

Strange, I can see them o.O

dheerendra

At least I am not able see the images. If u can share it and also workable code to check it will help us to help you.

MasterBLB

Hmm, edit feature works strane, so I'll add the pictures here. Uploaded to postimage.org, so should be fine this time

MasterBLB

Oh my, seriously not even a slightest clue?

J.Hilk

@MasterBLB

soryy can't help here much,

But let me ask, how are you managing the position of your 5 vertical layouts ?

Are they also managed by a QLayout ? QHBoxLayout seems appropriate.

mrjj

@MasterBLB
Hi
I read it a few times but it could be anything.
My first guess was that you insert the "Right arm" "HEAD" etc after the spacer.
Like its already in UI file and you just use layout->addwidget so it comes after spacer.

MasterBLB

It is as follows:
Pic 3 with these long spacers contains complex widgets MechPartWidget presented in pic 4. You can see a tiny selection above the 2nd vertical spacer
Then, in MechPartWidget there are no layouts/widgets with vertical horizontal policy set to expanding.
Next, in the MechPartWidget there is a custom widget InventoryWidget. I tried to add QVBoxLayout to it, several widgets, and then a vertical spacer - and I expect this own-added layout would be honoured only inside boundaries of InventoryWidget, yet it isn't.