What is the difference between Row and RowLayout?

Row is a Item Positioner. Positioner items are container items that manage the positions of items in a declarative user interface. RowLayout is part of Qt Quick Layouts. They manage both the positions and the sizes of items on a declarative user interface, and are well suited for resizable user interfaces. Your code with RowLayout … Read more

How do I use Qt in Visual Studio Code?

You should give a chance for this extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cpptools With this, you can configure include paths for better IntelliSense results. Configuring includePath One way to configure e.g the QtCore module. Ctrl + Shift + p to open command palette Search for: C/Cpp: Edit Configurations You should have a new tab called: c_cpp_properties.json In configurations array … Read more

Inserting an image in a GUI using Qt Designer

You can start inserting a label. Next, you right click on it an then click “change rich text…”. A new window will pop-up. Click on the figure Icon “Insert figure”. Now, you have to create a resource file. Click on the Pencil button. Next, click on the “New resource file” button. Choose a name and … Read more

Reading entire file to QString

As pointed out, there is no such constructor for QTextStream. I quickly typed those few lines to verify it is indeed working properly: foreach (QString file, files) { QFile f(file); if (!f.open(QFile::ReadOnly | QFile::Text)) break; QTextStream in(&f); qDebug() << f.size() << in.readAll(); } And I do get the expected output – the size and content … Read more

Qt QPushbutton Icon above Text

If you’re able to, the easiest thing to do is use a QToolButton instead: QToolButton* button = new QToolButton(this); button->setToolButtonStyle(Qt::ToolButtonTextUnderIcon); button->setIcon(myIcon); button->setText(“Sample text”); If that’s not an option you could consider creating your own button widget, possibly derived from QPushButton or QAbstractButton. In this case you’ll probably (I haven’t tried it myself) want to focus … Read more

Stretching element to contain all children

You can use the childrenRect property for this: import QtQuick 2.0 Rectangle { width: 320 height: 200 Rectangle { color: “BurlyWood” anchors.centerIn: parent width: childrenRect.width + 20 height: childrenRect.height + 20 Text { id: hello x: 10 y: 10 text: “Hello” } Text { anchors.left: hello.right anchors.leftMargin: 10 anchors.top: hello.top text: “World” } } } … Read more

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