[Qt-interest] Widget content not showing with parent

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

Eirik Ulvik wrote:
> Does anyone have a clue why the contents of a widget is shown when i do:
> widget->setParent(0); widget->show(). But not if the widget has a
> parent. I have this situation and am really puzzled. What might be the
> problem. The widget in question shows open gl content that is integrated
> with the Coin3D scene graph and SoQt.
> 


A widget with parent 0 is a top level. If you call show() on it, it
becomes visible.

A widget with a parent is visible IFF the parent is visible. Calling
show() and hide() on this widget only affects visibility if the parent
was visible to stat with.

Girish