How to maintain widgets aspect ratio in Qt?
How is it possible to maintain widgets aspect ratio in Qt and what about centering the widget? Marc Mutz - mmutz You don't have to implement your own layout manager. You can do with inheriting QWidget and reimplementing int QWidget::heightForWidth( int w ) { return w; } to stay square. However, heightForWidth() doesn't work on toplevel windows on X11, since apparently the X11 protocol doesn't support that. As for centering, you can pass Qt::AlignCenter as the third parameter of QBoxLayout::addWidget() or the fifth parameter of QGridLayout::addWidget() . Note: In newer versions of Qt at least,