Click the button, a table control appears next to the button, click the blank space or the content in the control to close.
I have two ideas:
With the popmenu, can click the blank space or the content in the control to close the control, but it does not meet my needs for a table-type control
New a tableview, but I don’t know how to accurately appear under the button and realize the function of clicking the blank space or the content in the control to close the control
Update：
I need to use Qt to implement a function, but I don't know how to implement it.
The functions are as follows:
Click a QPushButton, and a QTableView is displayed below the button. I can click anywhere outside the QTableView to close this QTableView
There are two things I cannot achieve:
1.How to display the QTableView below the QPushButton (must be immediately below, such as:
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2.How to close the QTableView by clicking the blank space outside the QTableView
If you can make all of this in the same window, it's simple...
To position the QTableView below the QPushButton you will use Qt Designer, and setup the QTableView to hide();. And when the QPushButton is clicked, he setup the QTableView to show();.
An show(); example:
QTableView *nametable = ui->tableView;
nametable->show(); //will appears
But to close or hide(); this when clicked in a blank space I don't know how to help you...
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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.
I'm new to Qt and the difference between QPushButton and QToolButton is not so clear to me.
I know that a QToolButton is usually used in a QToolBar and it usually shows only an icon, without text, but I don't quite understand the main difference between both.
Does it have any bigger difference?
When should I use QPushButton and when should I use QToolButton?
I would like to know this to use the most appropriate button, and I need to perform some GUI tests and maybe it can be relevant.
QPushButton is simply a button. QToolButton is part of a group of widgets in the QtWidgets module that operate on QActions: QMenu and QToolBar are other examples. As a result, QToolButton is much more complex under the hood than QPushButton.
Some examples of how they are different in practice:
QToolButton is tightly integrated with QAction. Changing the icon, text, or other properties of a tool button's default action is reflected on the button.
You can change the layout of the tool button contents (icon only, text only, text beside icon, text below icon). This is not possible for a QPushButton.
QToolButton supports a "split" button type: a sidebar hot zone opens a menu instead of triggering the default action.
Tool buttons can be created directly in a QToolBar by adding an action. Other widgets must be explicitly added to the toolbar.
A tool button is meant to be displayed in a grid, so it has smaller default internal margins than a push button.
QPushButton is more for "Ok"/"Close" type buttons that contain text with an optional icon.
A QToolButton should generally have an icon.
A QPushButton should always have text.
From Qt doc: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtoolbutton.html#details
"A tool button is a special button that provides quick-access to specific commands or options. As opposed to a normal command button, a tool button usually doesn't show a text label, but shows an icon instead."
When i want a button in the GUI simple with only an icon, I use QToolButton. But when i want a classic button, i use QPushButton.
No big differences,
I want a simple example code that shows QLineEdits by a QPushButton click on the same window. i.e. Whenever the button is clicked, a new line edit is displayed on the window.
Or if i should put it this way; if the button is clicked 4 times, 4 line edits should be displayed on that same window
Thank you!
One of the solutions is to create a QVector of pointers to QLineEdit and to add new one each time button is clicked. Each new created QLineEdit has to be added to your window layout. Like this:
QVector<QLineEdit*> lineEdits;
void onButtonClick() {
QLineEdit* newLineEdit = new QLineEdit(this);
lineEdits.push_back(newLineEdit);
// Add newLineEdit to layout
}
Don forget to delete the elements when they're not needed or use smart pointers.
Is it possible to add some widgets to a QTabBar? I wanted to have a QComboBox to the side of the last tab, and have it only appear when the last tab is selected.
It's possible to add child overlay widgets to any widget, so the answer is: sure!
You can hook to the tab widgets's or tab bar's signals to get notified when the last tab is selected. Then use tabRect() to get the rectangle of the last tab. Position your combo box to the right of it. It'd need to be a child of the tab bar. That's it.
It might be easier to use a QStackedWidget to get your desired results. When you are using the QStackedWidget you can have different buttons outside that reveal the different widgets. Then use some custom signal for when the last button is activated to show a combobox that appears next to the last button.
Here is the link to the QStackedWidget
I have a QLabel in my application that displays error messages to the user. I would like to make the text of the label selectable so users can copy and paste the error message if needed.
However, when I use the mouse to click and drag over the text, nothing happens - the text is not selected.
How can I make the text within a QLabel selectable by the mouse?
Code
The text of a QLabel can be made selectable by mouse like so:
label->setTextInteractionFlags(Qt::TextSelectableByMouse);
This is found in the QLabel documentation.
You can use that same function to make links selectable by keyboard, highlight URL links, and make the text editable. See Qt::TextInteractionFlag.
Designer
Search for textInteractionFlags under the QLabel menu and set the flag TextSelectableByMouse.
Here is another method, for reference...
You could create a QLineEdit subclass instead, tweaked to look and act like a QLabel,
in the constructor:
setReadOnly(true);
setFrame(false);
QPalette palette = this->palette();
palette.setColor(QPalette::Base, palette.color(QPalette::Background));
setPalette(palette);
I think the accepted answer is simpler and preferable to this though.