Question

I’m trying to overlap two QLabels. One qlabel contains an image, while the other one draws a rectangle when I tell it to. Both work individually, but I need to overlap the rectangle QLabel on top of the image QLabel. In QMainWindow I only have one option: to setCentralWidget. How would I do this?

Answer 1

If you want two overlapping labels, you do not add them to a layout but position them directly within their parent window.

something like this:

// ...
parent = new QWidget();
label1 = new QLabel(parent);
label2 = new QLabel(parent);
label1->setGeometry(QRect(100,100,80,20));
label2->setGeometry(QRect(100,100,80,20));
// ...