[Interest] Rows distributed evenly in QFormLayout on MacOS

[Andreas Pakulat]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Bo Elmgreen <bo.elmgreen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I use a QFormLayout for showing a list of settings - labels with a custom
> slider widget - on a widget that has a fixed height. On Windows and Linux
> the rows seem to be added, only taking up the vertical space that they need,
> but on MacOS the rows are distributed evenly within the space that I
> allocate to the parent widget. The application supports various languages
> and in some of these, some of the labels are wrapped. This is no problem on
> Windows and Linux as the wrapped labels are given a bit more space than the
> other ones, but on MacOS the wrapped labels are clipped due to the even
> distribution of the rows :-/ Does anybody have an idea as to how I could get
> around this? I guess that I could try and put the form inside of a scroll
> area, but I would prefer to avoid any scrolling.

Did you check wether Apple's HIG have anything to say about such
forms? IIRC the form-layout wsa introduced to render such forms in a
way that best matches the platform, so it might be that this is simply
the way forms are supposed to be done on MacOSX.

This also means the solution to avoid the problem is to use a
different layout for your widget which has the wanted behaviour also
on MacOSX.

Andreas