How to maintain widgets aspect ratio in Qt?

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You don’t have to implement your own layout manager. You can do with inheriting QWidget and reimplementing

int QWidget::heightForWidth( int w ) { return w; }

to stay square. However, heightForWidth() doesn’t work on toplevel windows on X11, since apparently the X11 protocol doesn’t support that. As for centering, you can pass Qt::AlignCenter as the third parameter of QBoxLayout::addWidget() or the fifth parameter of QGridLayout::addWidget().

Note: In newer versions of Qt at least, QWidget does not have the heightForWidth or widthForHeight anymore (so they cannot be overriden), and therefore setWidthForHeight(true) or setHeightForWidth(true) only have an effect for descendants of QGraphicsLayout.

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