[Interest] Receive screen rotate/resize events?

[Lincoln Ramsay]

On 03/12/2012 02:46 AM, ext g4hx wrote:
> When I rotate the screen, an X11 event of type
...
> is created. However, none of the available toolkits that I know
> (qt3/4/gtk) picks up the event. So once the screen is rotated, my widget
> is not spread across the screen anymore.
...
> I would like to know if there is any possibility to either install an
> event handler to pick up X events directly (although this would
> obviously not be platform independent any more) or get qt to support
> these events directly.

Changing orientation is something that Qt 5 should support (there's some 
C++ and QML bindings being done for it) but even with earlier Qt's you 
should see the desktop widget get resized.
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qdesktopwidget.html

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Lincoln Ramsay - Senior Software Engineer
Qt Development Frameworks, Nokia - http://qt.nokia.com/