Setting layout margins in pyqt

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waspinator picture waspinator · May 17, 2013 · Viewed 15.5k times · Source

In Qt Designer I can set the margin of a VBox or HBox using the properties layout*Margin.

How can I do that in pyqt?

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Answer

waspinator picture waspinator · May 17, 2013

You can use QLayout.setContentsMargins:

# layout is a defined VBox or HBox
layout.setContentsMargins(left, top, right, bottom)

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