Mastering C++ Programming

Writing a GUI application with a horizontal layout

Let's write a Qt application that has a couple of buttons in the dialog. Qt supports a variety of useful layout managers that act as an invisible canvas where many QWidgets can be arranged before they are attached to a window or dialog. Each dialog or window can have only one layout. Every widget can be added to only one layout; however, many layouts can be combined to design a professional UI.

Let's start writing the code now. In this project, we are going to write code in a modular fashion, hence we are going to create three files with the names MyDlg.h, MyDlg.cpp, and main.cpp.

The game plan is as follows:

1. Create a single instance of QApplication.
2. Create a custom dialog by inheriting ...