How to keep buttons close to each other (horizontally) in Qt widget?

[TheIndependentAquarius]

QGridLayout *layout = new QGridLayout ();
    centralWidget->setLayout (layout);
    layout->addWidget (refresh, 0, 0);
    layout->addWidget (zoomIn, 1, 0);
    layout->addWidget (zoomOut, 1, 1);
    layout->addWidget (panLeft, 2, 0);
    layout->addWidget (panRight, 2, 1);
    layout->addWidget (panTop, 3, 0);
    layout->addWidget (panBottom, 3, 1);
    layout->addWidget (findInfo, 4, 0);
    layout->addWidget (textEdit, 5, 0);
 
    window->setCentralWidget (centralWidget);

QGridLayout *layout = new QGridLayout ();
    centralWidget->setLayout (layout);
    layout->addWidget (refresh, 0, 0);
    layout->addWidget (zoomIn, 1, 0);
    layout->addWidget (zoomOut, 1, 1);
    layout->addWidget (panLeft, 2, 0);
    layout->addWidget (panRight, 2, 1);
    layout->addWidget (panTop, 3, 0);
    layout->addWidget (panBottom, 3, 1);
    layout->addWidget (findInfo, 4, 0);
    layout->addWidget (textEdit, 5, 0);

    window->setCentralWidget (centralWidget);

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[Robbie]

The big gap you've got is caused by the size of textEdit. You could do two things:

1. You could make textEdit span two columns using QGridLayout::addWidget(QWidget * widget, int fromRow, int fromColumn, int rowSpan, int columnSpan, Qt::Alignment alignment = 0)

2. You could put all the buttons in a QGridLayout and then add that as the first element in a QVBoxLayout, with textEdit as the second element.

[wyjyan]

Yo

set rowSpan, columnSpan for widgets in QGridLayout::addWidget()

Ex:
 
layout->addWidget (panBottom, 3, 1, 1, 1);
layout->addWidget (findInfo, 4, 0, 1, 1);
layout->addWidget (textEdit, 5, 0, 1, 2);

Ex:

layout->addWidget (panBottom, 3, 1, 1, 1);
layout->addWidget (findInfo, 4, 0, 1, 1);
layout->addWidget (textEdit, 5, 0, 1, 2);

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