Increase the size of the box in a form to fit the text

kanakas

Hi,
I have created some layouts to display a form, but the size of the linedit box with the
“patient["clinical_department"]” or “patient["surname"])” are too small and the text doesn’t fit.
What can I do?

@layout = new QFormLayout;
_layout3 = new QVBoxLayout(this);

while(!patients3.isEmpty()) {
QMap<QString,QString> patient = patients3.takeFirst();
if (patient["id"]==itemId) {
QLineEdit *MyLineEdit = new QLineEdit(patient["clinical_department"]);
layout->addRow("ID",MyLineEdit);
layout->addRow("Surname", new QLineEdit(patient["surname"]));
}
}
listview->setLayout(layout);
this->_layout3->addWidget(listview);
}@

fluca1978

You have to calculate the required space depending on the text length using a font metric, and then set the preferred size of the line edit. But this does not seem a good option to me: what if the text is edited over the displayed size?

kanakas

is there anything else that i can do?
In addition how can i add scrollbars.
I had creted a treewidget before and when i ran my application on my mobile phone, it autommatically displayed them.

kanakas

Hi, I need a little help with my code. I am trying to put scrollbars on my code.
It is a form that i would like to be in a groupbox and the groupbox in a qvboxlayout.

@
QVBoxLayout* _layout3;
QFormLayout* layout;

QScrollArea *scrollArea = new QScrollArea(this);
scrollArea->setWidgetResizable(true);
QGroupBox *groupBox = new QGroupBox(scrollArea);

QWidget *baseArea = new QWidget();
baseArea->setLayout(_layout3);
scrollArea->setWidget(baseArea);

while(!patients3.isEmpty()) {
    QMap<QString,QString> patient = patients3.takeFirst();
    if (patient["id"]==itemId) {
        QLineEdit *MyLineEdit = new QLineEdit(patient["id"]);
        layout->addRow("ID",MyLineEdit);
        layout->addRow("Surname", new QLineEdit(patient["surname"]));
        layout->addRow("Name", new QLineEdit(patient["name"]));
}
groupBox->setLayout(layout);
scrollArea->widget()->setLayout(_layout3);

this->_layout3->addWidget(groupBox);
}@