Remove Qt widget layout's margins - c++

I want to remove the spacing marked as red lines in the screenshot.
I set layout's contents margins to (0,0,0,0), re-sized parent widget to minimum but still can not get rid of those spaces.
This only happens on Mac.
Looking for some help.
Thanks in advance!

As nnb told, welcome to the weird size policies on mac.
But you can wrap layout to widget and crop margins.

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I was looking at this article
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Can someone please help me out?
Have a look at the layout system.
That icon does not mean your QWidget is disabled, that just mean you do not apply a layout on it.
Try to press like Ctrl+1 in order to apply a basic layout. If nothing has changed, you might need to put a QWidget inside the central widget first and then apply the layout.

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I have come up with a solution. By placing the widget inside of another group box and animating it to move out side the bounds of the group box produces the desired result.

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I’ve already customize my horizontal and vertical scrollbars using a stylesheet no problem.
But there still an annoying tiny area which remains blank :
The intersection of an horizontal and vertical bar. A small rectangle.
How could I change its color ? (Using stylesheets )
Thank you !
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Ps: Even on the Qt stylesheet example it’s still white.
I realise this is an old question, but I found a better solution.
QAbstractScrollArea::corner {
background: somecolor;
}
Or, to hide it, use:
background: transparent;
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Using Qt Creator, I have set a QWidget's background property to black. However, some parts of the QWidget, more specifically, between QFrames/QGroupBoxes are still in its system's default color.
Now, I thought that the QFrames and QGroupBoxes need to have its background property set to black too, but it did not work. I have also tried setting the border-color to black, but it does not work, since by default borders, margins are set to 0.
QWidget { background: black; }
Any advice on this issue?
EDIT
The QWidgets are placed in QMdiArea. However, if I make it a QWindow, it works. However, I want the QWidgets to be in the QMdiArea. Also, if I just show the QWidgets as it is, the spaces that I have mentioned above are transparent.
It sounds like you have some widgets within another widget, and are setting the contained widgets to be black, but then the space between them is not black. If that is the case, it is likely because you have a layout in the containing widget, which allocates space between each contained widget. The empty space between widgets will be drawn with the containing widget's background color.
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How to prevent an icon being highlighted?

I have a listwidget with items which have icons. When the item is selected both the text and the icon are highlighted. My problem is that when the icon is highlighted it just goes entirely black because I'm using only two colours. Is there a way to prevent the icon from being selected?
You can add additional images to the QIcon, depending on it's state:
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Best solution was to make your own qstyle which handled the painting of the backgrounds of listitem sub controls and draw the icons qrect as white
Another possibility would be to reimplement QListWidgetItem... You could therefore have a bigger control on how things gets done during the process of selection and painting...
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