I am in the process of making a tvguide. I have used a QGraphicsView and added QGraphicsItems with the program name. I would like to add static areas, one on the left to display the channel name, icon and one at the top to display a timebar.

could you suggest a method of achieving this?

the ui has been draw using QTCreator, not hand coded. I have looked at setViewPortMargins but i dont how i would use this with the standard QGraphicsView from Creator.

Any help or guidance much appreciated.