[PySide] sliding widgets into position

[Frank Rueter | OHUfx]

brilliant, that works great, thanks!
Now I will try and understand it :-D
It's getting late here though to will pick it apart tomorrow to try and 
get what I was missing (probably quit a few things).

Very much appreciated!
frank

On 4/27/12 5:47 PM, Tibold Kandrai wrote:
> Try this out ;)
> http://pastebin.com/a04tvY0U
>
> Cheers,
> Tibold
>
> On 2012-04-27 02:11, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote:
>> So I've followed Tibold's advice and sorted out some other ugly stuff 
>> and am a bit closer.
>> My problem now is that, because I am not adding the top and bottom 
>> frames to the layout anymore (to avoid the middle frame shifting), I 
>> now can't get the right size and position relative to the centre frame.
>>
>> This is what I have now a bit cleaned up and with comments:
>> http://pastebin.com/wrUX5Ce0
>>
>> By making the middle frame the parent to the top and bottom frames 
>> they line up to it now in the upper left corner - cool, one step forward.
>> But I can't get the top and bottom frames to have the same width as 
>> the parent and also don't know how to control the position properly 
>> so that the bottom frame is always positioned in the bottom left 
>> corner of the centre frame.
>> The size policy isn't inherited either which I'm a bit clueless a 
>> bout too.
>>
>> Sorry for the noob questions but have looked online for tutorials on 
>> this sort of positioning to no avail.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> frank
>>
>>
>> On 4/27/12 10:08 AM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote:
>>> Thanks Tibold, I will have a look at that.
>>> I'm still not sure how to figure out the positioning in a procedural 
>>> way though.
>>> Will investigate more.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> frank
>>>
>>> On 4/26/12 6:53 PM, Tibold Kandrai wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Try to subclass QDockWidget. You will have to set it's geometry
>>>> manually. Also if you want the widgets to pop up above the centralWidget
>>>> than don't add the dock widgets to any layout. Simply add them with the
>>>> main window as their parent, and raise them when you show them.
>>>> Using this technique I managed to implement auto hiding widgets like in
>>>> Visual Studio. It's not trivial, but it's possible.
>>>> Actually if you don't need any of the QDockWIdget's functionality you
>>>> can do the same with a QFrame as well. Same logic, override it's
>>>> geometry, and don't add them to the grid layout. Adding the widgets to
>>>> the grid layout will always push the central widget.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Tibold
>>>>
>>>> On 2012-04-26 08:42, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> end of day for me and my brain has gone numb, so I'm probably missing
>>>>> the obvious:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to create a widget with three areas: top, middle and bottom
>>>>> (using QFrames as place holders for now).
>>>>> The middle frame is meant to be visible from the start containing some
>>>>> text and other widgets, when the button is pushed, the top frame is
>>>>> meant to slide down into view and the bottom frame is meant to slide up
>>>>> into view, so that I'm left with a controllable vertical arrangements of
>>>>> those three frames.
>>>>> Here is my ugly attempt so far:
>>>>> http://pastebin.com/index/bNJ9zeUm
>>>>>
>>>>> Things do move but I can't control the start and end positions properly
>>>>> and the GridLayout adjusts itself when showing the extra frames, so that
>>>>> the middle frame jumps. I have no idea how to set the size hints etc. to
>>>>> define the start and end positions of the sliding QFrames generically
>>>>> and avoid the jumping middle frame (might have to go with an alternative
>>>>> approach to QGridLayout?!).
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Frank
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