[PySide] sliding widgets into position

Mon Apr 30 22:57:19 CEST 2012

I think that's where I'm stuck now, as the lack of a layout causes my 
sliding pages to overlap with the docks.
I shall look up how to create custom layouts but was wondering if I 
could simply use a GridLayout adjusted so it has only three rows that 
mimic the size of the main window's areas (centre area and top/bottom 
docks) and only use the middle row to populate with widgets that 
shouldn't overlap the docks.

I will have a go at both today, thanks.

On 1/05/12 2:49 AM, Tibold Kandrai wrote:
> Hi!
>
> If I think more about it the proper way would be to create a custom 
> layout which positions your sliding layouts where you need them. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Tibold
>
> On 2012-04-30 14:53, Tibold Kandrai wrote:
>> 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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