Scrolling inside a Qtoolbox

[susa]

I have following hierarchy designed in Designer:

QToolbox -> VerticalLayout -> GridLayout -> Pushbutton_1, Pushbutton_2,.... Pushbutton_n

Basically, I have laid out many pushbuttons using a gridlayout which in turn is inside a VerticalLayout which in turn is inside a QToolbox page.

There are many pushbuttons in the grid layout. I have set minimum width/height for all of them. Area required to layout all these push buttons can be larger than the area available in the page of the qtoolbox. I would like to automatically add a scroll bars to the page when this happens. I tried to use a scroll area as the parent of the vertical layout but it does not work. Any idea why?

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

You should set the layout on a QWidget that you set on the QScrollArea.

[susa]

@SGaist Say inside a QFrame?

[SGaist]

No need for a QFrame, use a QWidget.

[susa]

@SGaist I tried but does not seem to work. I purposely set the size of the layout to be larger than the widget so that widget will have to expand to accommodate the layout. Please see below for the heirarchy.

[SGaist]

Since you have scrollAreaWidgetContent, remove "widget" and set the layout on scrollAreaWidgetContent.

[susa]

@SGaist I had to set the minimum sizes for the scrollAreaWidgetContent to get the effect. Which seems logical. However, why cannot I let the layout expand based on the constraints set and based on the size of the layout let the scroll area add scroll bars?

[SGaist]

Did you remove the "widget" and applied the vertical layout on scrollAreaWidgetContent as suggested ?