Widget Classes

Below you find a list of all widget classes in Qt. You can also browse the widget classes Qt provides in the various supported styles in the Qt Widget Gallery.

Basic Widgets

These basic widgets (controls), such as buttons, comboboxes and scroll bars, are designed for direct use.

QCheckBox	Checkbox with a text label
QComboBox	Combined button and popup list
QCommandLinkButton	Vista style command link button
QDateEdit	Widget for editing dates based on the QDateTimeEdit widget
QDateTimeEdit	Widget for editing dates and times
QDial	Rounded range control (like a speedometer or potentiometer)
QDoubleSpinBox	Spin box widget that takes doubles
QFocusFrame	Focus frame which can be outside of a widget's normal paintable area
QFontComboBox	Combobox that lets the user select a font family
QLCDNumber	Displays a number with LCD-like digits
QLabel	Text or image display
QLineEdit	One-line text editor
QMenu	Menu widget for use in menu bars, context menus, and other popup menus
QProgressBar	Horizontal or vertical progress bar
QPushButton	Command button
QRadioButton	Radio button with a text label
QScrollArea	Scrolling view onto another widget
QScrollBar	Vertical or horizontal scroll bar
QSizeGrip	Resize handle for resizing top-level windows
QSlider	Vertical or horizontal slider
QSpinBox	Spin box widget
QTabBar	Tab bar, e.g. for use in tabbed dialogs
QTabWidget	Stack of tabbed widgets
QTimeEdit	Widget for editing times based on the QDateTimeEdit widget
QToolBox	Column of tabbed widget items
QToolButton	Quick-access button to commands or options, usually used inside a QToolBar
QWidget	The base class of all user interface objects

Advanced Widgets

Advanced GUI widgets such as tab widgets and progress bars provide more complex user interface controls.

QCalendarWidget	Monthly based calendar widget allowing the user to select a date
QColumnView	Model/view implementation of a column view
QDataWidgetMapper	Mapping between a section of a data model to widgets
QDesktopWidget	Access to screen information on multi-head systems
QListView	List or icon view onto a model
QMacCocoaViewContainer	Widget for Mac OS X that can be used to wrap arbitrary Cocoa views (i.e., NSView subclasses) and insert them into Qt hierarchies
QMacNativeWidget	Widget for Mac OS X that provides a way to put Qt widgets into Carbon or Cocoa hierarchies depending on how Qt was configured
QTableView	Default model/view implementation of a table view
QTreeView	Default model/view implementation of a tree view
QUndoView	Displays the contents of a QUndoStack
QWSEmbedWidget	Enables embedded top-level widgets in Qt for Embedded Linux
QWebView	Widget that is used to view and edit web documents
QX11EmbedContainer	XEmbed container widget
QX11EmbedWidget	XEmbed client widget
Phonon::VideoWidget	Widget that is used to display video

Organizer Widgets

Classes like splitters, tab bars, button groups, etc are used to organize and group GUI primitives into more complex applications or dialogs.

QButtonGroup	Container to organize groups of button widgets
QGroupBox	Group box frame with a title
QSplitter	Implements a splitter widget
QSplitterHandle	Handle functionality of the splitter
QStackedWidget	Stack of widgets where only one widget is visible at a time
QTabWidget	Stack of tabbed widgets

Abstract Widget Classes

Abstract widget classes usable through subclassing. They are generally not usable in themselves, but provide functionality that can be used by inheriting these classes.

QAbstractButton	The abstract base class of button widgets, providing functionality common to buttons
QAbstractScrollArea	Scrolling area with on-demand scroll bars
QAbstractSlider	Integer value within a range
QAbstractSpinBox	Spinbox and a line edit to display values
QDialog	The base class of dialog windows
QFrame	The base class of widgets that can have a frame

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Trademarks

Qt 4.6.0