How to place a GraphicsView in a layout object

[webguy85]

I need to create a scene and place it in a GraphicsView. Once I finish the scene and place it in the GraphicsView, how do I place the GraphicsView inside a layout object? My layout object is called vlayout and is an instance of QVBoxLayout. This is what I have so far (mostly from online examples):

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widget = new QWidget();
vlayout = new QVBoxLayout(widget);
QGraphicsScene scene;
scene.addText("Hello, world!");
QGraphicsView view(&scene);
view.show();

//Here I want to place the view inside a layout object called vlayout
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[Chris H]

@ vlayout->addWidget(view);@ Have a look at the "documentation for QVBoxLayout":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/QVBoxLayout.html for more examples.

[webguy85]

When I do that, I get an error:

'QBoxLayout::addWidget' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'QGraphicsView' to 'QWidget *'

[broadpeak]

You have to pass an address, so:

vlayout->addWidget(&view); // & = reference as address

[webguy85]

I see. Im new to C++ so I am just getting used to pointers and addresses. Thanks.

I dont see the text though. Any idea why?

[webguy85]

Syntactically, everything is fine, but I can't get my image to show up. This is what I have:

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QGraphicsScene scene;
QGraphicsView view(&scene);
QPixmap pixmap(":/images/icons/dsp.gif");
QGraphicsPixmapItem* dsp = scene.addPixmap(pixmap);
view.show();
vlayout->addWidget(&view);
vlayout->addWidget(new QPushButton("some button here"));
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The QPushButton shows up fine in the layout, but not the view. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

[Chris H]

Assuming this is in a function, the QGraphicsView is a local variable: when it goes out of scope it's gone. You should dynamically allocate it (this seems to be "the Qt way") or make it a member variable of your class.