Dockwidget and Toolbutton

[sandeepvl]

Hi all,
i am a newbie in Qt programming. i am doing an editor like tool for VHDL files. i have my own configuration file for storing the configurations regarding the project settings. i have a QTextEdit set as the centralWidget of main window....and a dock widget which is left or right dockable. Dockwidget will contain a set of tool buttons which when clicked will show the corresponding information in a textedit inside the dockwidget.

My problem is that, when i add the toolButtons in the dockwidget using dockWidget->setWidget(), the last button comes on top of the previous one.... any ideas on how to solve this..??? (code for the dock widget is attached.)

Also when i do the same thing thru Designer, there is no issue of overlapping buttons. But when i used the layout on the buttons in the dock widget, the size of the buttons are automatically adjusted. This will make the buttons non uniform. How may i solve this?

Thanks in advance.... this is my first post in this forum... xpecting quick replies... Please help me if anyone has an idea...
Regards
Sandeep.