QFlowLayout

QLayout that rearranges items based on parent width.

from qtpy.QtWidgets import QApplication, QPushButton, QWidget

from superqt import QFlowLayout

app = QApplication([])

wdg = QWidget()

layout = QFlowLayout(wdg)
layout.addWidget(QPushButton("Short"))
layout.addWidget(QPushButton("Longer"))
layout.addWidget(QPushButton("Different text"))
layout.addWidget(QPushButton("More text"))
layout.addWidget(QPushButton("Even longer button text"))

wdg.setWindowTitle("Flow Layout")
wdg.show()

app.exec()

Qt Class

QLayout

Methods

Layout that handles different window sizes.

The widget placement changes depending on the width of the application window.

Code translated from C++ at: https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/examples/widgets/layouts/flowlayout

described at: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtwidgets-layouts-flowlayout-example.html

See also: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/layout.html

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
parent	QWidget	The parent widget, by default None	None

horizontalSpacing() -> int

Return the horizontal spacing.

setHorizontalSpacing(space: int | None) -> None

Set the horizontal spacing.

If None or -1, the spacing is set to the default value based on the style of the parent widget.

setVerticalSpacing(space: int | None) -> None

Set the vertical spacing.

If None or -1, the spacing is set to the default value based on the style of the parent widget.

verticalSpacing() -> int

Return the vertical spacing.