When I do that, I get an error:

‘QBoxLayout::addWidget’ : cannot convert parameter 1 from ‘QGraphicsView’ to ‘QWidget *’

You have to pass an address, so:

I see. Im new to C++ so I am just getting used to pointers and addresses. Thanks.

I dont see the text though. Any idea why?

Syntactically, everything is fine, but I can’t get my image to show up. This is what I have:

The QPushButton shows up fine in the layout, but not the view. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Assuming this is in a function, the QGraphicsView is a local variable: when it goes out of scope it’s gone. You should dynamically allocate it (this seems to be “the Qt way”) or make it a member variable of your class.