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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Usage of QLayout and QGroupBox in KDE
From:       Leon Widdershoven <l.widdershoven () fz-juelich ! de>
Date:       1999-08-04 9:09:36
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Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 04 Aug 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> >Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I noticed one slightly annoying thing with KDE-2.0's layout management: very
> >> few groupboxes get the layout right.
> >>
> >> Problem: the very first row often overlaps with the group box text.
> >>
> >> Qt-2.0 makes groupbox layouting finally easier. Simply remove all your custom
> >> layout code for the groupbox and create the groupbox  with the new constructor:
> >>
> >>
> >> /*!
> >>   Constructs a group box with a \a title. Child widgets will be arranged
> >>   in \a strips rows or columns (depending on \a orientation).
> >>
> >>   The \e parent and \e name arguments are passed to the QWidget constructor.
> >> */
> >>
> >> QGroupBox::QGroupBox( int strips, Orientation orientation,
> >>                     const QString &title, QWidget *parent,
> >>                     const char *name )
> >>
> >> That's it. Less code in KDE and looks nicer :-)
> >>
> >Well, but you can hardly blame KDE programmers.
> 
> He doesn't blame anyone, it's just a hint :-))

I hope the good-old 
vbox->addSpacing( this->fontMetrics().height() ); 
does still work...

> 
> --
> Reggie

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