How to group two widgets so that they look like one widget?

[mjs225]

I need to display rich text on a checkbox. I tried grouping a QCheckBox and QLabel in a QHBoxLayout. The problem is that it doesn't look like one widget.

struct CheckBox : QWidget{
	QHBoxLayout layout{this};
	QCheckBox checkbox;
	QLabel label;
	CheckBox(){
		layout.addWidget(&checkbox);
		layout.addWidget(&label);
		// layout.addStretch();
	}
};

If no stretch is added and the group has a large width, there will be a large space between the checkbox and label.
If a stretch is added after the label, other widgets cannot be added close next to the group.

How to group the two widgets so that they look like one widget?

[mpergand]

@mjs225
use QLayout::setAlignment(QWidget *w, Qt::Alignment alignment) after addWidget

And create your objects dynamically (with new), i'm suprised this doesn't crash !

[mjs225]

@mpergand Thanks. Here's the code that works in my case:

CheckBox(){
	layout.addWidget(&checkbox);
	layout.setAlignment(&checkbox, Qt::AlignRight);
	layout.addWidget(&label);
	layout.setAlignment(&label, Qt::AlignLeft);
}

[JonB]

@mjs225

@mpergand said in How to group two widgets so that they look like one widget?:

And create your objects dynamically (with new), i'm suprised this doesn't crash !

Still suggest you follow @mpergand's advice for this, for safety.