[PySide] sliding widgets into position

[Tibold Kandrai]

Hi!

There I just needed a SIGNAL for the resizeEvent, to be able to resize
the sliding widgets, so their size will always conform with the window.

Cheers,
Tibold

On 2012-04-30 00:59, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote:
> Hi Tibold,
>
> I'm starting to go through your example code and was wondering why
> it's necessary to subclass QFrame and re-implement the resizeEvent for
> "CentralFrame"?!
> To my novice eye it looks like what you did here should be working for
> QFrame out of the box, but it doesn't.
>
> Would you mind explaining?
>
> Cheers and thanks again for this example!
> 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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