Center a widget in a cell on a QTableWidget

Hi, i have a QTableWidget and set a cellWidget for one particular cell

The problem is that my widget has a fixed size and want that widget to be centered (horizontally and vertically) within the cell

Any ideas??

Best Regards

Put it in another widget along with a set of springs that centers it.

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Originally Posted by e8johan

Put it in another widget along with a set of springs that centers it.

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Sorry about digging this old thread but could you post here some code that shows how to do it ?
Thanks

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Originally Posted by THRESHE

Sorry about digging this old thread but could you post here some code that shows how to do it ?

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This is how it looks in Qt Designer:

I understand how it looks in the Designer :) But I've asked for some code
I've tried to solve it like this

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QWidget* wdg = new QWidget;
QVBoxLayout layout(wdg);
layout.addSpacing(6);
layout.addWidget(holder->GetProgressBar());
layout.addSpacing(6);
wdg->setLayout(&layout);
table->setCellWidget(vectIndex_, 4, wdg);

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But it worked the way I didn't expect it to work. The progress bar was centered but it became 3 pixels high not 12 :(

Spacing is non-stretchable space. Add stretch instead of spacing.

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Originally Posted by jpn

Spacing is non-stretchable space. Add stretch instead of spacing.

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I know but height of the row is also non-stretchable

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Originally Posted by THRESHE

I know but height of the row is also non-stretchable

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Ok, in other words: spacing is a space of fixed amount of pixels.

<spacing 6 px><widget N px><spacing 6 px> = takes always 12 + N pixels
<stretch><widget N px><stretch> = takes M + N pixels where M stretches to available space

Here is a screenshot and some code

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QLabel* pL = new QLabel;
 
QMovie* movie_ = new QMovie;
movie_->setFileName(":/images/StatusIcons/ico_complete.png");
 
QHBoxLayout* layout = new QHBoxLayout(pL);
QLabel* ic = new QLabel;
QLabel* f = new QLabel("Hello World");
ic		->setMovie(movie_);
layout	->addWidget(ic, 5, Qt::AlignRight);
movie_->start();
layout	->addWidget(f);
 
table->setCellWidget(vectIndex_, 3, pL);

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I can not understand what's the problem :crying:

Layouts have margin by default so try:

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layout->setMargin(0);

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Originally Posted by jpn

Layouts have margin by default so try:

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layout->setMargin(0);

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Did the trick thanks a lot jpn ;)

Damn :mad: Layouts are still not so clear to me :confused:
I try to use them like this

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pixmap_.load(":/images/StatusIcons/ico_complete.png");
iconLabel_.setPixmap(pixmap_);
layout_.addSpacing(50);
layout_.addWidget(&iconLabel_);
layout_.addSpacing(5);
layout_.addWidget(&textLabel_);
layout_.addSpacing(50);
layout_.setMargin(0);

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But I get something like this...:confused:

Sorry, from that snippet it's hard to understand which is which. Anyway, it's a very bad idea to allocate widgets on the stack like that. Here are a couple of threads explaining why:

• http://www.qtcentre.org/forum/f-qt-p...ent-10561.html
• http://www.qtcentre.org/forum/f-qt-p...ssue-8715.html

This can be done a lot easier IMO:

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//the tablewidget
QTableWidget* tableWidget = new QTableWidget(w);
 
//some rows and columns
tableWidget->setRowCount(3);
tableWidget->setColumnCount(3);
 
//first create a new widget
QWidget* wdg = new QWidget;
 
//lets say we want a checkbox in the cell
QCheckBox *box = new QCheckBox();
 
// create the layout ON THE HEAP! (else after the function ends, layout is gone)
QHBoxLayout* layout = new QHBoxLayout(wdg);
 
// add the checkbox to the widget
layout->addWidget(box);
 
// center align the layout (box ends up in the center horizontally and vertically)
layout->setAlignment( Qt::AlignCenter );
 
// set the layout on the widget, it takes ownership of the layout (don't need to delete it later)
wdg->setLayout(layout);
 
// set the widget in the cell
tableWidget->setCellWidget(2, 0, wdg);

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Thanks. The last example worked for me however the checkbox appears slightly off center in the cell. Any ideas what causes that?

This is in Qt 4.3 on windows XP.

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Originally Posted by drescherjm

Thanks. The last example worked for me however the checkbox appears slightly off center in the cell. Any ideas what causes that?

This is in Qt 4.3 on windows XP.

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Hi,

I'm just guessing here, but maybe you could try layout->setSpacing( 0 ) and check if this changes anything

Thanks, I will try that.

My first guess for the reason was that there was some space auto allocated for the label that can appear next to the checkbox.

If you have not guessed I am a former MFC programmer...