[SOLVED] How to set Multiple QGroupBox alignment in QVBoxLayout

[kloveridge]

This is a seemingly basic issue. But I am having difficultly getting exactly what I want. I have a QVBoxLayout that I want to stack multiple QGroupBox widgets into. I want them to align from top to bottom and stay connected together. This is what happens by default:
!http://i.imgur.com/JZbYaRC.png()!

I have tried several alignment settings. This will work, but is this the right way?

@ ui->NodeView->addWidget(m_nodeTransform);
ui->NodeView->addWidget(m_nodeCommon);

ui->NodeView->setAlignment(m_nodeCommon, Qt::AlignTop);@

[Jeroentjehome]

Hi,
The empty space needs to be filled by something. Use a Vertical spacer below the last QGroupbox and your fine. OTherwise the layout will try to fill the available space with the widgets it has (the two groupboxes)

[kloveridge]

That worked. Thank you!

Here's a snippet of code that did it.

@QSpacerItem* spacer = new QSpacerItem(300,1000, QSizePolicy::Expanding, QSizePolicy::Expanding);
spacer->setAlignment(Qt::AlignVCenter);

ui->NodeView->addWidget(m_nodeTransform);
ui->NodeView->addWidget(m_nodeCommon);
ui->NodeView->addWidget(m_nodeDrawable);
ui->NodeView->addItem(spacer);@

[Jeroentjehome]

Oke, glad it helped!
Here is some docs for you to solve other issues with layouts:
"LayoutManagement":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/layout.html
Also, the use of addItem is not wrong, but it might be better to use this:
@
void QBoxLayout::addSpacerItem(QSpacerItem * spacerItem)
@
This is more appropriate.