Scroll area not scrolling

graniteDev

On the UI side, using QtCreator, I have a QScrollArea and I use this code to put a widget in it.

void ServiceAppLayout::setSideBarWidget(QWidget *widget)
{
    ui->sideBarScrollArea->setWidget(widget);
}

This works fine, as the widget appears as expected, but if the widget is oversized, the scroll area doesn't offer scroll bars. What am I missing? How do I get the scroll bars to appear when needed?

dheerendra

which platform ? Did you try with simple example like follows ? Does it work ?

MainWindow w;
w.resize(600,600);

QScrollArea area;
area.setWidget(&w);
area.show();

graniteDev

Ok, I figured it out, it had nothing to do with my code, or the scroll area. The widget that is handed to the scroll area has to have a layout defined, and all the visual elements need to be in that layout. This I discovered by accident this morning.