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<p>Just as widgets can contain other widgets, layouts can be used to provide different levels of grouping for widgets. Here, we want to display a label alongside a line edit at the top of a window, above a table view showing the results of a query.</p>
<p>We achieve this by creating two layouts: <tt>queryLayout</tt> is a <a href="qhboxlayout.html">QHBoxLayout</a> that contains <a href="qlabel.html">QLabel</a> and <a href="qlineedit.html">QLineEdit</a> widgets placed side-by-side; <tt>mainLayout</tt> is a <a href="qvboxlayout.html">QVBoxLayout</a> that contains <tt>queryLayout</tt> and a <a href="qtableview.html">QTableView</a> arranged vertically.</p>
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<tr valign="top" class="odd"><td ><pre class="cpp"> <span class="preprocessor">#include <QtGui></span>
<span class="type">int</span> main(<span class="type">int</span> argc<span class="operator">,</span> <span class="type">char</span> <span class="operator">*</span>argv<span class="operator">[</span><span class="operator">]</span>)
{
<span class="type"><a href="qapplication.html">QApplication</a></span> app(argc<span class="operator">,</span> argv);
<span class="type"><a href="qwidget.html">QWidget</a></span> window;
<span class="type"><a href="qlabel.html">QLabel</a></span> <span class="operator">*</span>queryLabel <span class="operator">=</span> <span class="keyword">new</span> <span class="type"><a href="qlabel.html">QLabel</a></span>(
<span class="type"><a href="qapplication.html">QApplication</a></span><span class="operator">::</span>translate(<span class="string">"nestedlayouts"</span><span class="operator">,</span> <span class="string">"Query:"</span>));
<span class="type"><a href="qlineedit.html">QLineEdit</a></span> <span class="operator">*</span>queryEdit <span class="operator">=</span> <span class="keyword">new</span> <span class="type"><a href="qlineedit.html">QLineEdit</a></span>();
<span class="type"><a href="qtableview.html">QTableView</a></span> <span class="operator">*</span>resultView <span class="operator">=</span> <span class="keyword">new</span> <span class="type"><a href="qtableview.html">QTableView</a></span>();
<span class="type"><a href="qhboxlayout.html">QHBoxLayout</a></span> <span class="operator">*</span>queryLayout <span class="operator">=</span> <span class="keyword">new</span> <span class="type"><a href="qhboxlayout.html">QHBoxLayout</a></span>();
queryLayout<span class="operator">-</span><span class="operator">></span>addWidget(queryLabel);
queryLayout<span class="operator">-</span><span class="operator">></span>addWidget(queryEdit);
<span class="type"><a href="qvboxlayout.html">QVBoxLayout</a></span> <span class="operator">*</span>mainLayout <span class="operator">=</span> <span class="keyword">new</span> <span class="type"><a href="qvboxlayout.html">QVBoxLayout</a></span>();
mainLayout<span class="operator">-</span><span class="operator">></span>addLayout(queryLayout);
mainLayout<span class="operator">-</span><span class="operator">></span>addWidget(resultView);
window<span class="operator">.</span>setLayout(mainLayout);
<span class="comment">// Set up the model and configure the view...</span>
window<span class="operator">.</span>setWindowTitle(
<span class="type"><a href="qapplication.html">QApplication</a></span><span class="operator">::</span>translate(<span class="string">"nestedlayouts"</span><span class="operator">,</span> <span class="string">"Nested layouts"</span>));
window<span class="operator">.</span>show();
<span class="keyword">return</span> app<span class="operator">.</span>exec();
}</pre>
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</div><p>Note that we call the <tt>mainLayout</tt>'s <a href="qboxlayout.html#addLayout">addLayout()</a> function to insert the <tt>queryLayout</tt> above the <tt>resultView</tt> table.</p>
<p>We have omitted the code that sets up the model containing the data shown by the <a href="qtableview.html">QTableView</a> widget, <tt>resultView</tt>. For completeness, we show this below.</p>
<p>As well as <a href="qhboxlayout.html">QHBoxLayout</a> and <a href="qvboxlayout.html">QVBoxLayout</a>, Qt also provides <a href="qgridlayout.html">QGridLayout</a> and <a href="qformlayout.html">QFormLayout</a> classes to help with more complex user interfaces. These can be seen if you run <a href="designer-manual.html#qt-designer">Qt Designer</a>.</p>
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<h2>Setting up the Model</h2>
<p>In the code above, we did not show where the table's data came from because we wanted to concentrate on the use of layouts. Here, we see that the model holds a number of items corresponding to rows, each of which is set up to contain data for two columns.</p>
<pre class="cpp"> <span class="type"><a href="qstandarditemmodel.html">QStandardItemModel</a></span> model;
model<span class="operator">.</span>setHorizontalHeaderLabels(
<span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span>() <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="type"><a href="qapplication.html">QApplication</a></span><span class="operator">::</span>translate(<span class="string">"nestedlayouts"</span><span class="operator">,</span> <span class="string">"Name"</span>)
<span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="type"><a href="qapplication.html">QApplication</a></span><span class="operator">::</span>translate(<span class="string">"nestedlayouts"</span><span class="operator">,</span> <span class="string">"Office"</span>));
<span class="type"><a href="qlist.html">QList</a></span><span class="operator"><</span><span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span><span class="operator">></span> rows <span class="operator">=</span> <span class="type"><a href="qlist.html">QList</a></span><span class="operator"><</span><span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span><span class="operator">></span>()
<span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> (<span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span>() <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"Verne Nilsen"</span> <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"123"</span>)
<span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> (<span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span>() <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"Carlos Tang"</span> <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"77"</span>)
<span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> (<span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span>() <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"Bronwyn Hawcroft"</span> <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"119"</span>)
<span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> (<span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span>() <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"Alessandro Hanssen"</span> <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"32"</span>)
<span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> (<span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span>() <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"Andrew John Bakken"</span> <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"54"</span>)
<span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> (<span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span>() <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"Vanessa Weatherley"</span> <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"85"</span>)
<span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> (<span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span>() <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"Rebecca Dickens"</span> <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"17"</span>)
<span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> (<span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span>() <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"David Bradley"</span> <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"42"</span>)
<span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> (<span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span>() <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"Knut Walters"</span> <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"25"</span>)
<span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> (<span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span>() <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"Andrea Jones"</span> <span class="operator"><</span><span class="operator"><</span> <span class="string">"34"</span>);
foreach (<span class="type"><a href="qstringlist.html">QStringList</a></span> row<span class="operator">,</span> rows) {
<span class="type"><a href="qlist.html">QList</a></span><span class="operator"><</span><span class="type"><a href="qstandarditem.html">QStandardItem</a></span> <span class="operator">*</span><span class="operator">></span> items;
foreach (<span class="type"><a href="qstring.html">QString</a></span> text<span class="operator">,</span> row)
items<span class="operator">.</span>append(<span class="keyword">new</span> <span class="type"><a href="qstandarditem.html">QStandardItem</a></span>(text));
model<span class="operator">.</span>appendRow(items);
}
resultView<span class="operator">-</span><span class="operator">></span>setModel(<span class="operator">&</span>model);
resultView<span class="operator">-</span><span class="operator">></span>verticalHeader()<span class="operator">-</span><span class="operator">></span>hide();
resultView<span class="operator">-</span><span class="operator">></span>horizontalHeader()<span class="operator">-</span><span class="operator">></span>setStretchLastSection(<span class="keyword">true</span>);</pre>
<p>The use of models and views is covered in the <a href="examples-itemviews.html">Item Views Examples</a> and in the <a href="model-view-programming.html">Model/View Programming</a> overview.</p>
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