[Interest] Resizing side by side nested dock widgets?

Elvis Stansvik elvstone at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 09:16:43 CEST 2016


2016-08-30 9:15 GMT+02:00 Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> When using nested dock widgets, and two dock widgets are placed side
> by side in the same dock area, is it possible to allow resizing of the
> outer dock widget (the one adjacent to the window edge) and have the
> other one "move" towards the center of the window to give room for the
> resize to happen?
>
> Consider the attached screenshot of the
> examples/widgets/mainwindows/mainwindow where I've enabled nested dock
> widgets through "Main window -> Allow nested docks" and placed the
> black and red dock side by side in the left dock area. When grabbing
> the handle between the black and red and black dock and moving it
> leftward, I'd like the red dock widget to move (without being resized)

Sorry, I meant moving it rightward (towards window center).

Elvis

> towards the center of the window.
>
> At the moment it's impossible to move this handle unless I first grab
> the handle facing the central widget, to resize the dock area as a
> whole. And when I then try the handle between the two docks, it will
> move the divider between the widget independantly, not move the red
> dock widget.
>
> I understand the current behavior, but is there an easy way to get the
> behavior I want?
>
> If it's not easy, but possible, does anyone know of an application
> which has beated the dock widgets into behaving like this?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Elvis



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