QGraphicsLinearLayout Class Reference
[QtGui module]

Detailed Description

The QGraphicsLinearLayout class provides a horizontal or vertical layout for managing widgets in Graphics View.

The default orientation for a linear layout is Qt::Horizontal. You can choose a vertical orientation either by calling setOrientation(), or by passing Qt::Vertical to QGraphicsLinearLayout's constructor.

The most common way to use QGraphicsLinearLayout is to construct an object on the heap with no parent, add widgets and layouts by calling addItem(), and finally assign the layout to a widget by calling QGraphicsWidget::setLayout().

 QGraphicsScene scene;
 QGraphicsWidget *textEdit = scene.addWidget(new QTextEdit);
 QGraphicsWidget *pushButton = scene.addWidget(new QPushButton);

 QGraphicsLinearLayout *layout = new QGraphicsLinearLayout;
 layout->addItem(textEdit);
 layout->addItem(pushButton);

 QGraphicsWidget *form = new QGraphicsWidget;
 form->setLayout(layout);
 scene.addItem(form);

You can add widgets, layouts, stretches (addStretch(), insertStretch() or setStretchFactor()), and spacings (setItemSpacing()) to a linear layout. The layout takes ownership of the items. In some cases when the layout item also inherits from QGraphicsItem (such as QGraphicsWidget) there will be a ambiguity in ownership because the layout item belongs to two ownership hierarchies. See the documentation of QGraphicsLayoutItem::setOwnedByLayout() how to handle this. You can access each item in the layout by calling count() and itemAt(). Calling removeAt() or removeItem() will remove an item from the layout, without destroying it.