A nice simple example would be nice. For my part, I wish to do something like this:
myLayout->addWidget(myButton1);
myLayout->addWidget(myButton2);
myButtonList<QToolButtons*>->append(myLayout->findChildren(QToolButtons));
myButtonList->at(1)->setText("This is 'myButton2'");
Use QList along with using findChildren with QWidget because QLayout does not show QWidgets as its children and a QWidget have a parent QWidget only. Refer this
QWidget w;
QPushButton *p1= new QPushButton;
QPushButton *p2= new QPushButton;
QHBoxLayout l;
l.addWidget(p1);
l.addWidget(p2);
w.setLayout(&l);
QList<QPushButton*> buttons = w.findChildren<QPushButton*>();
buttons.at(0)->setText("Hello I am P1");
buttons.at(1)->setText("Hello I am P2");
w.show();