Scroll area on right side of main window

[rakkar]

I added the dock view, and an item based list view inside. How do I make the item based list view always take up the entire area of the dock view? Thanks in advance.

[vfernandez]

In Qt Designer, you may add a layout (e.g. a vertical layout). If you're adding the view by code, use QDockWidget::setWidget().

[rakkar]

Is the QListWidget supposed to be a child of verticalLayout in ObjectInspector? If it's not a child the layout doesn't seem to do anything. If the QListWidget is a child, it doesn't fill the layout. It's like 1/4 of the layout, only in the center.

[victor.fernandez]

Just follow this procedure:

- Create a QMainWindow in Qt Designer.
- Add a dock widget.
- Add a QListWidget inside of the dock widget.
- Select the dock widget by clicking on it.
- Click the Form menu - Layout vertically.
Voièla!

Now you can resize the dock widget. The list widget will take the whole space.

[rakkar]

Thanks. If I want to put a label above the list widget, the label takes up half of the vertical area of the dock widget. How do I get the label to only take up the necessary size to show it? I tried changing size policy to minimum but it doesn't do anything.

[vfernandez]

Make sure the vertical size policy of the label is Preferred and the vertical size policy of the QListWidget is Expanding or MinimumExpanding.