Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Layouts

If you build and run the project now, you will see the window with two labels and a button, but they will remain in the exact positions you left them. This is what you almost never want. Usually, it is desired that widgets are automatically resized based on their content and the size of their neighbors. They need to adjust to the changes of the window's size (or, in contrast, the window size may need to be restricted based on possible sizes of the widgets inside of it). This is a very important feature for a cross-platform application, as you cannot assume any particular screen resolution or size of controls. In Qt, all of this requires us to use a special mechanism called layouts.

Layouts allow us to arrange the content of a widget, ...