<span class="gmail_quote"></span><br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> After I applied the grid box, a red box appeared around the outline of the
<br>> grid layout, and squished everything vertically.<br><br>>>OK. You're applying layouts that way! :-)</blockquote><div><br>? I was following your directions. What should I have done differently?<br>Is it normal for the group boxes to get squished or not?
<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;">>>Unlike Python, Qt Designer has more than one obvious way to do lots of
<br>>>things. ;-)</blockquote><div><br>That statement about only doing things one way in Python just isn't true<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;">
>> <a href="http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/learnmore/video/demos/browser">http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/learnmore/video/demos/browser</a></blockquote><div><br>not until now- that is helpful <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;">>>Still, it needn't be so hard to use. Most things I do with Designer are quite<br>
>>simple, so it shocked me a little to see how hard it was to do what you wanted.</blockquote><div><br>Some docs on how to use layouts would be good.<br>For example - how would a user know to use the "apply layout" buttons as opposed to putting layouts on the forms, the placing widgets on/in them?
<br>This is where I started going wrong.<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;">>> <a href="http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/layout.html">
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/layout.html</a><br><br>>>Having said that, the above document does get into advanced issues rather<br>>>quickly. Maybe it's time to start writing another tutorial. :-/</blockquote>
<div><br>I wouldn't necessarily say this is advanced, but it doesn't cover something as simple as my example- two vertical layouts side- by side.<br>I had read that layout.html many times, trying to figure out how to get widgets inside of a group box.
<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;">David<br></blockquote></div><br>