QScrollArea Class Reference
[QtGui module]

Size Hints and Layouts

When using a scroll area to display the contents of a custom widget, it is important to ensure that the size hint of the child widget is set to a suitable value. If a standard QWidget is used for the child widget, it may be necessary to call QWidget::setMinimumSize() to ensure that the contents of the widget are shown correctly within the scroll area.

If a scroll area is used to display the contents of a widget that contains child widgets arranged in a layout, it is important to realise that the size policy of the layout will also determine the size of the widget. This is especially useful to know if you intend to dynamically change the contents of the layout. In such cases, setting the layout's size constraint property to one which provides constraints on the minimum and/or maximum size of the layout (e.g., QLayout::SetMinAndMaxSize) will cause the size of the the scroll area to be updated whenever the contents of the layout changes.

For a complete example using the QScrollArea class, see the Image Viewer example. The example shows how to combine QLabel and QScrollArea to display an image.

See also QAbstractScrollArea, QScrollBar, and Image Viewer Example.

Property Documentation

alignment : Qt::Alignment

This property holds the alignment of the scroll area's widget.

By default, the widget stays rooted to the top-left corner of the scroll area.

This property was introduced in Qt 4.2.

Access functions:

• Qt::Alignment alignment () const
• void setAlignment ( Qt::Alignment )

widgetResizable : bool

This property holds whether the scroll area should resize the view widget.

If this property is set to false (the default), the scroll area honors the size of its widget. Regardless of this property, you can programmatically resize the widget using widget()->resize(), and the scroll area will automatically adjust itself to the new size.

If this property is set to true, the scroll area will automatically resize the widget in order to avoid scroll bars where they can be avoided, or to take advantage of extra space.

Access functions:

• bool widgetResizable () const
• void setWidgetResizable ( bool resizable )

Member Function Documentation

QScrollArea::QScrollArea ( QWidget * parent = 0 )

Constructs an empty scroll area with the given parent.

See also setWidget().

QScrollArea::~QScrollArea ()

Destroys the scroll area and its child widget.

See also setWidget().

void QScrollArea::ensureVisible ( int x, int y, int xmargin = 50, int ymargin = 50 )

Scrolls the contents of the scroll area so that the point (x, y) is visible inside the region of the viewport with margins specified in pixels by xmargin and ymargin. If the specified point cannot be reached, the contents are scrolled to the nearest valid position. The default value for both margins is 50 pixels.

void QScrollArea::ensureWidgetVisible ( QWidget * childWidget, int xmargin = 50, int ymargin = 50 )

Scrolls the contents of the scroll area so that the childWidget of QScrollArea::widget() is visible inside the viewport with margins specified in pixels by xmargin and ymargin. If the specified point cannot be reached, the contents are scrolled to the nearest valid position. The default value for both margins is 50 pixels.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.2.

void QScrollArea::setWidget ( QWidget * widget )

Sets the scroll area's widget.

The widget becomes a child of the scroll area, and will be destroyed when the scroll area is deleted or when a new widget is set.

The widget's autoFillBackground property will be set to true.

If the scroll area is visible when the widget is added, you must show() it explicitly.

Note that You must add the layout of widget before you call this function; if you add it later, the widget will not be visible - regardless of when you show() the scroll area. In this case, you can also not show() the widget later.

See also widget().

QWidget * QScrollArea::takeWidget ()

Removes the scroll area's widget, and passes ownership of the widget to the caller.

See also widget().

QWidget * QScrollArea::widget () const

Returns the scroll area's widget, or 0 if there is none.

See also setWidget().