[Interest] QMacNativeWidget & memory management

[deDietrich Gabriel]

On Dec 11, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Tim Blechmann <tim at klingt.org> wrote:

>> QMacNativeWidget creates an NSView that you will insert in your view
>> hierarchy. That NSView will receive mouse and keyboard events, like
>> any other view, that will be forwarded to the QMacNativeWidget as Qt
>> events. Other events, such as expose or update events, will be also
>> forwarded to Qt since they come form the NSView hierarchy update
>> mechanism. However, the NSView, and hence Qt, will not receive
>> NSWindow notifications, such as minimization, fullscreen mode, etc.
>> (it does in pure Qt because we manage both the NSView and its
>> NSWindow). And, obviously, pure Cocoa events and notifications need
>> to be forwarded to Qt as well. We admit the documentation could be a
>> bit more complete in this area.
> 
> thanks a lot! also i wonder: is the parent NSView informed if the
> QMacNativeWidget is resized? in my use case i have a QMacNativeWidget,
> containing a layout. i suppose the layout resizes it depending on its
> content. but the parent NSView is not resizes accordingly, right? i
> suppose this is my responsibility to do this?

The QMacNativeWidget’s NSView will be resized to the widget’s size but, unless you use Cocoa's constraints-based layouting API, there’s no size propagation from subview to superview.

> oh and yes, any improvement in the documentation on how to use
> QMacNativeWidget would be more than welcome :)


We’ll try to improve it for 5.3, after we get enough feedback.

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Best regards,

Dr. Gabriel de Dietrich
Senior Software Developer
qt.digia.com