Align QLabels and QtableWidgets
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Hello,
I am quite new to Qt and have a few questions.
My main goal is to create an application, that gets data from a device, to be specific it gets 4 numbers.
I want them to be displayed like this
length ___
height ___
width ___
weight ___
so the data would go on the blanks, and also the units behind the data.
My first approach was to create a lot of Qlabels that display the data on a Qframe and the units, but I can't get them to be in line, when I create them by hand. So first question: can I get labels aligned? But only the labels I choose, not everything, including the buttons?
My next approach was a QTableWidget, but when I create one in the designer and put it in the middle of the Qframe, I can't connect to it, like tell it to have 3 columns. Only when I create one in my code it does what it should, but it is always locked in the corner of my window.
How can I get the QtableWidget in the center of my Qframe and fill it with data?Thanks a lot for your help or any ideas as to how to implement this application!
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Hi and welcome to devnet,
From your description it looks like you didn't set any layout manager, did you ?
You might be interested by the QFormLayout for your QLabel related stuff.
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QLabels have, as many other Qt stuff too, a setText(const QString &) function. So you can change the label's displayed text via
@QLabel::setText("some text");@Btw.: You can pass a text to display directly to QLabel's constructor:
@QLabel* label = new QLabel("some text");@ -
Look at the Property Editor
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Ok, I managed to use QLineEdit, because it has the setText Function. I didn't manage however to add a row, that has a QLabel as buddy. That somehow didn't come up in the choices when I click add a row in the Designer.
But now I have another question: Can I make QLineEdit non editable? So it just displays text and I can't write in it? -
You realized that QLabel also has this functionallity?
It's really dirty to abuse QLineEdits just to display text, you have other Qt classes for that.But if you adhere to that, the following should do it for you:
@QLineEdit* edit = new QLineEdit("TextToDisplay");
edit->setReadOnly(true);@
