Delete A Row From QGridLayout - c++

Question

All, I am maintaining a QGridLayout of QLabels which show the coefficients of a polynomial. I represent my polynomial using QList<double>.
Each time I update my coefficients, I update my labels. When changing the size of the list, my method does not works well. QGridLayout::rowCount() doesn't update correctly. I am wondering if there's a way to remove rows from a QGridLayout.
Code follows, updating the QGridLayout size with more (or less) QLabels
int count = coefficients->count(); //coefficients is a QList<double> *
if(count != (m_informational->rowCount() - 1)) //m_information is a QGridLayout
{
SetFitMethod(0);
for(int i = 0; i < count; ++i)
{
QLabel * new_coeff = new QLabel(this);
new_coeff->setAlignment(Qt::AlignRight);
m_informational->addWidget(new_coeff, i+1, 0);
QLabel * param = new QLabel(this);
param->setAlignment(Qt::AlignLeft);
param->setText(QString("<b><i>x</i><sup>%2</sup></b>").arg(count-i-1));
m_informational->addWidget(param, i+1, 1);
QSpacerItem * space = new QSpacerItem(0,0,QSizePolicy::Expanding);
m_informational->addItem(space, i+1, 1);
}
m_informational->setColumnStretch(0, 3);
m_informational->setColumnStretch(1, 1);
m_informational->setColumnStretch(2, 1);
}
The SetFitMethod (it's an initial mockup)
void SetFitMethod(int method)
{
ClearInformational();
switch(method)
{
case 0: //Polynomial fit
QLabel * title = new QLabel(this);
title->setText("<b> <u> Coefficients </u> </b>");
title->setAlignment(Qt::AlignHCenter);
m_informational->addWidget(title,0,0,1,3, Qt::AlignHCenter);
}
}
The Clearing Method:
void ClearInformational()
{
while(m_informational->count())
{
QLayoutItem * cur_item = m_informational->takeAt(0);
if(cur_item->widget())
delete cur_item->widget();
delete cur_item;
}
}

Answer 1

The issue is that QGridLayout::rowCount() doesn't actually return the number of rows that you can see, it actually returns the number of rows that QGridLayout has internally allocated for rows of data (yes, this isn't very obvious and isn't documented).
To get around this you can either delete the QGridLayout and recreate it, or if you're convinced that your column count won't change, you can do something like this:
int rowCount = m_informational->count()/m_informational->columnCount();

Answer 2

I solved this by creating a QVBoxLayout (for rows) and within this I was adding QHBoxLayout (for columns). In the QHBoxLayout I was then inserting my widgets (in one row). This way I was able to nicely remove rows - overall row count was working as it should be. Additionally to this I got also an insert method, thanks to which I was able to insert new rows into specific locations (everything was correctly reordered/renumbered).
Example (only from head):
QVBoxLayout *vBox= new QVBoxLayout(this);
//creating row 1
QHBoxLayout *row1 = new QHBoxLayout();
QPushButton *btn1x1 = new QPushButton("1x1");
QPushButton *btn1x2 = new QPushButton("1x2");
row1->addWidget(btn1x1);
row1->addWidget(btn1x2);
//adding to vBox - here you can use also insertLayout() for insert to specific location
vBox->addlayout(row1);
//creating row 2
QHBoxLayout *row2 = new QHBoxLayout();
QPushButton *btn2x1 = new QPushButton("2x1");
QPushButton *btn2x2 = new QPushButton("2x2");
row2->addWidget(btn2x1);
row2->addWidget(btn2x2);
//adding to vBox - here you can use also insertLayout() for insert to specific location
vBox->addlayout(row2);

Answer 3

Well, my solution was to also delete the QGridLayout in ClearInformational