Share widget by pages in a QStackedWidget - c++

I'm trying to build a widget to display images like a slideshow using a QStackedWidget and a QGridLayout.
It would have arrows on the left and right sides to swipe between the images (change the pages of the QStackedWidget).
Is it possible to create these <= => buttons only once and display them on all pages? or do I need to create them inside of each page of the QStackedWidget?

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Is there a way to attach or anchor two QWidgets together?

I'm getting started with Qt and decided to build a full-screen text editor. I want to have a button (button with arrow in screenshot) attached to a QDockWidget which opens and closes it so the button is always visible to the right side of the screen and stay anchored to it when dock is visible or resized.
My current app is a simple fullscreen textEdit set to centeralwidget in Mainwindow.
I haven't found a way to do this yet with layouts or existing addAnchor() functions so any help or direction is appreciated.
You can achieve what you want by using a container for your text edit and the button. A QWidget instance can be used as an "invisible"*** container for other widgets.
So in Qt Designer you add a widget as a central widget of the main-window, inside this widget you add the text edit and the button, then you set a vertical layout for this container widget.
Don't forget to restrict the docking widget to only dock to the right side, you can do that with: dock->setAllowedAreas(Qt::DockWidgetArea::RightDockWidgetArea); //assuming dock is the pointer to your QDockWidget.
In case you want the dockWidget to be able to dock to any side and the button to follow, you can do that too, but it get a little bit more complicated. Basically you need to connect a slot to dockLocationChanged of your dockWidget and based on where it's docked you need to set-up a new layout for the container widget to be vertical or horizontal and the order of the textEdit and the button based on the side the dock happened.
LE:*** you will most likely need to set the margins you want, since both the widget and it's layout can have them and the actual content might have higher spacing than you want.

Display image thumbnails with closing button in Qt

I have a widget that should display images that user has chosen (something like they are shown on the screenshot) and I need to allow users to remove images from this widget. Is there already some widget capable of doing this in Qt or I need to implement such widget by myself?
So, basically I need to display a small image with small closing button in top-right corner.
Yeah, you can. Make a custom widget

How to prevent QScroller gesture from interfering with QGraphicsView drag mode?

I am developing a touchscreen compatible app that has some widgets that contain QScrollAreas. I am using
QScroller::grabGesture(ui->scrollArea->viewport(), QScroller::LeftMouseButtonGesture);
to allow the user to easily scroll these widgets by swiping.
However, some of the scroll areas contain subclassed QGraphicsViews. I am adding QGraphicsItems to these and would like the user to be able to select items using rubberbanding. I have set the drag mode using
setDragMode(QGraphicsView::RubberBandDrag).
This works as desired if I don't also use grabGesture on the scroll area containing the view.
However, grabbing the gesture for the swipe scrolling interferes with the rubberbanding action of the graphics view.
How can I scroll widgets containing these views while also keeping the rubberbanding functionality in tact? I essentially want the widget to scroll unless the user is swiping inside of a QGraphicsView.

Expandable list view with customized scrollbar in Qt

I want to build a widget like this one that we can find in Word :
So, there is a list view using a specific scrollbar with 3 buttons and no scroll.
When you click on the last button at the bottom right, a new list view with a classic scrollbar is shown over the previous list view (hidden when losing focus). So basically, the smae behavior as the one in Word.
We are already capable of displaying a list view with custom content.
My main concern is how to build the widget in the first image: the list view with the custom scrollbar (3 buttons, no scroll)?
What is the proper way to do this ?
I assume that you're implementing a subclass of QAbstractListView.
I don't believe you need a custom scrollbar - just put the scrollbar and the button into a QVBoxLayout; hide the button once it's checked (you could even connect its toggled() to its setHidden() for that).
At first hide the default scroll-bar by calling the QAbstractScrollArea::setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(Qt::ScrollBarAlwaysOff) method.
Then create your three buttons on the left side and connect the QPushButton::clicked() signals to some slots where you just scroll your list by calling the QAbstractItemView::scrollTo(index), QAbstractItemView::scrollToBottom() or QAbstractItemView::scrollToTop().
While it is correct that you could just build a custom widget consisting of a view with hidden scrollbars and add the buttons to the layout, connecting the signals/slots needed to provide the proper actions, you can also consider to implement your own QScrollBar class. QListView is derived from QAbstractScrollArea, which provides setVerticalScrollBar() so you can just set an object of it to be used by the view. The integration of scroll area and scroll bar should be much more straightforward this way, but you'll have to do the painting of the scroll bar's content yourself, or put a layout and the buttons in there (QScrollBar derives from QWidget, and you'll have to reimplement paintEvent()).

Make a Toolbar have a grid layout

I want to make a QToolBar have 3 columns of buttons when docked on the left side of the QMainWindow, but have 1 row when docked on the top of the main window. Is this possible?
I have a tried using a QToolBar with a custom layout, but the normal re-size behavior of the QToolBar doesn’t work (doesn’t hide widgets behind an expand button when its too small). The non-working expand button isn’t that big of a deal, but the bigger problem is that the custom layout prevents the main window from being smaller than the toolbar.
I was able to get my desired behavior by putting each row of Tool Buttons in a QHBoxLayout, putting that layout in a empty QWidget, and calling toolBar->addWidget( widget ) for each row. This gives me a grid toolbar when the toolbar is mounted on the left, and single horizontal bar when mounted on the top.