Understanding Stretching and Spacing in Layout Managers

In this second episode on layout managers, we will discuss how to make widgets stretch, and how to get spaces into your layout.
We will discuss that both when you code it in C++, and when you do it in Qt Designer.
0:00 Intro
0:49 How layout managers and widgets communicate
3:25 sizeHint() and minumumSizeHint()
6:17 How to force a specific size on a widget
9:36 Stretching widgets
12:44 Stretching in Qt Designer
15:48 The alternative way to specify stretch factor in Qt Designer
18:24 KDAB trainings
18:42 Adding spaces around the layout managers
19:42 Size policies
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The video is presented by Jesper Pedersen, who started with Qt back when Qt was widgets only and the version was 1.44, which gives him 21 years of experience with Qt. Since 2000 he has taught almost 100 Qt classes, ranging from Qt Widgets to QML. Heck, Jesper even taught a few classes on QTopia Core - Trolltech's initial attempt at creating a phone stack. Today Jesper holds a fancy business title, but that doesn't prevent him from coding both in his job and in his spare time.
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