Question

I am currently working on a Qt project for my school. For this project I need to list an unknown number of elements in a window without resizing its content.

I’ve used some VBoxLayout in the past, but it isn’t what I am searching at all. This widget resizes its content depending on the number of elements it contains. What I would like is to add as much widgets as I need into the “scrolling widget”, which will stack next to each other automatically and won’t resize.

I tried using QScrollArea but I wasn’t able to make elements stack on each others.

Here is a small drawing explaining my problem:

Answer 1

If your display elements are simple, the easiest solution is a QListWidget. This will automatically resize itself and inform the QScrollArea when you add items. You just have to call myScrollAlrea -> setWidget (myListWidget) to initialise, and then myListWidget -> addItem (myListWidgetItem) to add new items.