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QWidget.setContentsMargins() appears to be ineffective: why so?

Situation:
I am working on a Qt4 application constructed in this way (in case parent widgets matter in this issue):

QApplication
   |_ QMainwindow
         |_ QScrollArea (central widget)
               |_ QFrame (child of scroll area)
                     |_ QFrame
                     |      |_ QLabel
                     |            |_ QPixmap
                     |_ QFrame
                     |      |_ QLabel
                     |            |_ QPixmap
                     |_ QFrame
                           |_ ect...

Objective:
I want there to be no margins between the sub-QFrames and their QLabels and equally between QLabels and their QPixmap.

Method:
I have requested to reduce the sub-QFrame’s margins with QFrame.setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0) and with its layout’s QBoxLayout.setSpacing(0). Zero-margin between QLabel and its QPixmap seems to occur naturally.

Problem:
In spite of all this, margins within QFrames persist in showing up: a situation which I have been able to test by applying a Style Sheet to the various widgets.

What can I do?

Solution

  • Answer provided on Qt Forum:

    The margins' content should be set both on the widget and its layout. Hence:

    QWidget *w = new QWidget();
w->setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);
w->layout()->setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);