> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2019 at 11:27 AM
> From: "René J.V. Bertin" <rjvber...@gmail.com>
> To: "interest@qt-project.org Interest" <interest@qt-project.org>
> Subject: [Interest] Taking back a widget from a QBoxLayout?
>
> Hi,
>
> Consider
>
> ```
> SomeWidgetClass *a = maybeReturnSomeWidget();
> SomeOtherQWidgetClass *b = maybeReturnSomeOtherWidget();
>
> QWidget *combined = new QWidget();
> QVBoxLayout *layout = new QVBoxLayout();
> layout->addWidget(a);
> layout->addWidget(b);
> combined->setLayout(layout);
> if (doWeLikeItCombined) {
> return combined;
> }
> // get back our widgets
> layout->removeWidget(a);
> layout->removeWidget(b);
> delete combined; // deleteLater()?
> return a ? a : b;
>
> ```
>
> The test on the combined widget looks at its size, which apparently I cannot
> get reliably from a->height(), b->width() and family directly.
> I thus need to take back my widgets a and b from the layout and it seems that
> what I do currently isn't good enough because the code crashes when after I
> return something other than the combined widget.
>
> Is this a catch-22 one can get out of?
I am not 100% sure, it's been a while, but I would assume that the layout is
not the true parent, combined is. The "delete combined" will delete child
widgets a and b. You need to unparent them, then delete combined. Layouts
allocate pixels and resize things, they don't own them, AFAIK.
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