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Reputation: 972

QPushButton: how to make it just small enough to show it's text only

4 QPushButtons

I have these pushbuttons and I have tried to minimize their sizes, but they refuse to go any smaller. They are all in a QHBoxLayout. Can I shrink them to just show the +, the -, the <-> and the EC texts?

On the layout:

->setSpacing(1);
->setContentsMargins(1,1,1,1);
->setAlignment(Qt::AlignLeft);

On the buttons themselves:

->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Minimum, QSizePolicy::Minimum);

When adding the buttons to the layout:

->addWidget(button, 0, Qt::AlignLeft);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 502

Answers (1)

MildWolfie
MildWolfie

Reputation: 2542

You can get your buttons a little smaller by removing the padding on the buttons using style sheets.

ui->myPushButton->setStyleSheet( "padding: 0px;" );

I would however strongly advise against using incredibly small buttons. As per Fitt's Law, the smaller a button is, the longer it takes for the User to move their cursor to within the bounds of the button, and the more likely they'll miss and click a neighboring element (made even more likely as there's no padding between the buttons in your example). This leads to user frustration, which is never a good thing.

Upvotes: 2

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