[SOLVED] Replace widget inside Layouts
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Hi Guys...
I'm trying to change a widget by other at run time.
imagine that we have a Widget with all widgets posibles and its layouts. When my app start, I use the class QUILoader to load a .ui file and load my widget dynamically. After that, If run over all childs of the main widget looking for a QDateEdir, QDateTimeEdit or QTimeEdit, because if i find someone of them, i need to create a QFrame with this edit and a checkbox too.
My issue is that I need to replace this edit for the new frame but in the same place inside the layaout and i can have any layout because I'm loading the form dynamically.
any idea ??
best regards
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Hi,
You can try with the QLayout's replace function. First your replace the widget with a dummy placeholder, create your new QFrame based widget and replace it back.
Hope it helps
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thanks my friend... that's is what i'm looking for !!!!
but now I need to do something else... because I can't invoke the copy constructor of widgets like QDateEdit (for example)... so, each component has it's own properties and I need to copy each one... let me explain better...
If i find some QDateEdit, QDateTimeEdit or QTimeEdit (this is my real case), I need to replace this item by a frame with one QDateEdit, QDateTimeEdit or QTimeEdit (depending what I found) and a checkbox in a horizontal layout. For that reason, I need to copy all properties defined in each edit to the new one. Copy constructor is not available for widgets objects , so, I can't copy the metaObject where properties are defined...
how can I do that ??
regards
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You don't need to, build your QFrame based container widget, swap it with widgets you're interested in, then add that widget to the layout of your container
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Ok my friend.... thank for the answer... With your first answer I solve my problem.. now trying to something else I have some problems, but first I'll like to looking for the answer by my self...
best regards and thanks
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@veiovis
You can use TakeAt
http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qlayout.html#takeAt
To get widget and ownership back.
Then delete and insert new.You cannot copy a QObject ( QWidget) but you can duplicate the properties.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36518686/dump-all-properties-of-a-qobject-derived-objectInstead of "dumping" simply assign to new object same property.
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Thank you, but in an abstract qlayout I cannot add an item a specific position, can I? The insertion would only work with a concrete Layout Implementation.
@veiovis
Hi, im not sure how you be able to have a concrete abstract layout instance.Do you mean that you access the layout via a base pointer ?
QLayout * and not say QGridLayout * ?In such case, you can just use s cast
QGridLayout *lay=qobject_cast<QGridLayout *>(the_base_pointer);
if (lay)
lay->insert(xxx)Of Course the "the_base_pointer" should really point to a QGridLayout for this to work.
( hence the if () is impotantant)So im purely guessing since im not really sure what code u have :)
