If you check out scrollareawidgetcontents there is an "error" sign.
Scroll area has size policy set to:
Scroll area widget contents has size policy set to:
If I try to add a Label with size policy:
The label is not scrollable.
What I want to achieve with this is a scrollable non-editable text area.
My concrete questions:
I don't see any label on the picture, so I can't tell what you do wrong. The red icon on scrollareawidgetcontents is not an error, it indicates that the widget has no layout. If you add a label to it and apply a layout to it, the icon will disappear.
Anyway, you should use Text Browser widget (QTextBrowser) to display scrollable text.