[Qt-creator] Problems with Dockwidgets

[Ken Ray]

I believe that I found the fix for this. This is definitely a Creator issue :)  , and a user issue (not knowing how use Creator) .

The fix is real simple. All I had to do was set the minimumSize . Width property to the value I wanted and the geometry . Width picked it up  .  Wow this property regarding sizes is confusing. It doesn't seem to make sense to have a width that doesn't stick, but yet have another minimum width that does.  Can anyone explain the logic behind that ?

Also, after doing that a border line on the right hand side of the dockWidget showed up. I wanted that but couldn't find how the sample was doing it.  What caused that to show up ?



On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> The demo is not fixed. If you look at it running it is completely sizable ... which is what I want .
> 
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:15 PM, John Vilburn wrote:
> 
>> If you want a fixed size widget, set the size policy for that widget to fixed.
>> 
>> On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
>> 
>>> I tried qt-interest and not much of a response. Note that this test app I'm trying to build is just like the fontsampler demo that comes with creator/QT.  I'm trying to duplicate the dockwidget on the left. How did fontsampler get around this problem ?   It seems to me that if Creator can't hold a layout for more than a few clicks there is a serious flaw. It makes working with all the contents related to that dockwidget a pain in the ass.  
>>> 
>>> I'm going to go play with Mono now to see how there stuff is . 
>>> 
>>> I want some cross platform development that is stable. but if none is stable , then I guess it's back to VS .net .. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jan 20, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Thomas Dähling wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Ken,
>>>> 
>>>> so if this also happens in the external designer, then you might want
>>>> to switch this discussion over to qt-interest if you consider this to
>>>> be a Qt defect :-)
>>>> 
>>>> /Thomas
>>>> 
>>>> 2010/1/20 Ken Ray <ken at ishere.com>:
>>>>> Not true. I just tried it in the external Designer. I changed the size of the dockWidget to 250. Then simply clicked on another widget.. a textEdit. The dockWidget immediately resized itself automatically.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Coda Highland wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> That's Designer, which happens to be embedded in Creator. The only way
>>>>>> this is directly Creator-related is if it doesn't happen when using
>>>>>> the external Designer.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> /s/ Adam
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Ken Ray <ken at ishere.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> This is directly related to Creator. I'm building the layout of the form using Creator, and Creator is not saving my changes.
>>>>>>> On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Coda Highland wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> This question should be directed toward the qt-interest mailing list.
>>>>>>>> The qt-creator ML is specifically for discussion about the Qt Creator
>>>>>>>> IDE, not for programs you're writing using it.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> /s/ Adam
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Ken Ray <ken at ishere.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hey, I'm getting started with QT, so bear with me. I've been trying to work with a Dockwidget that has a treewidget inside of it.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 1) I did a layout vertical layout on the dockWidgetContents and it caused the contained treeview to shrink in size (large borders), is there a way to avoid that behavior ?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 2) I changed the size of the dockWidget to a certain width, with policy being preferred, preferred.  This is all done in Creator 1.3.1 .  I then opened a source file and then went bak to the ui view. The dockWidget had reset it's size back to it's original size. There doesn't seem to be anything I can do to keep it from auto resizing itself. Is this a bug ?  Is there a way to fix this problem ?
>>>>>>>>> 
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