<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>>>then put a grid layout inside the left group box</blockquote><div>I think I'll skip the grid for now.
<br>The Find Files widget does'nt need to be there. Files will be effectively handled by the FileOpen broswer.<br>I put it there just for the moment.<br><br>The convert button can also be in the left vLayout- in the same column as the widgets above it.
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I've done all the steps you specified.<br><br>>>Now comes the tricky bit. You need to apply a grid layout to the widgets in
</blockquote><div>When you say 'widgets'- do you mean all of the group boxes as well (except for the outer-most group box)- in the left layout, or just the widgets inside of the group boxes?<br>Do I apply the grid layout to the spacers as well?
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>>the left hand group box then apply vertical layouts to all the group boxes within that group box. This will make editing the form quite difficult until
<br>>>it is done.</blockquote><div><br>After I applied the grid box, a red box appeared around the outline of the grid layout, and squished everything vertically.<br>I've selected the 3 inner group boxes, but the APply Layout buttons are disabled.
<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>>Generally speaking, I think many people come to Qt's layout system from
<br>>>systems where you place and resize widgets to have fixed geometries, and<br>>>they're upset that you can't do this once you apply layouts to widgets.</blockquote><div>upset- not, but lost yes. Looking at the docs, there's one paragraph about the layouts
<br>I'd say knowing how to apply the layouts & spacers are 80% of using Designer.<br><br>I had originally dragged the layouts onto the from, instead of applying them.<br>Not sure what the differences are, but my way obviously didn't work.
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>>I think it could be improved and made less like a presentation. Some of the
<br>>>earlier slides could be removed, for example.</blockquote><div><br>Visual information is good.<br>Also- before after, like when selecting widgets, then applying the layouts .<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>>OK. This kind of reinforces my impressions about "learning layouts". As I<br>>>said above, I think people sometimes have preconceptions about how to</blockquote><div>Sure- I came in with expectations that applied to a previous WYSIWIG, which isn't the way to go.
<br> </div>>>create user interfaces that aren't quite applicable when using layouts,<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>>or there's some confusion about what layouts actually are.</blockquote><div><br>I Agree <br></div><br></div><br>