[PyQt] Learning Qt5 designer

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

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On Freitag, 30. Dezember 2016 13:01:32 Rich Shepard wrote:
>    I'm trying to develop the UI for an application I'm developing using the
> Qt5 designer. I've read most of the old (2007) Qt4 book and have read some
> of the Qt5 tutorial pages on their web site without finding answers to my
> questions.
> 
>    Now I have a dialog under development to hold information about
> companies. I've placed plain text edit and label widgets on there, made the
> appropriate pairs buddies, and surrounded each row's worth of widgets with
> a vertical layout. This worked OK when there was only a single label-text
> entry widget in the layout, but not with a more complex one.
> 
>    There's a row containing labels and plain test data entry widgets for
> city, state, postcode, and country. When I ctrl-click on all 8 items and
> drag a horizontal layout over them it expands to fill the monitor's width,
> widening the small space for 'state' and 'postcode' data entry widgets. By
> trial-and-error I am able to select the state text edit widget, bring it to
> the front using the menu on the left, but cannot shrink the horizontal size
> back to what it was.
> 
>    Please point me to a reference on how to do this so I can adjust other
> text entry widges that the layout expanded.

You can undo your changes, as long as designer is still running.

Have you tried the other layout variant grid and form?

Post your ui file, please.. 

Pete