[Qt-interest] Re : Anyone Using the Qt/Motif Extension

[william.crocker at analog.com]

Jake Colman wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> Hmmmm.  This seems to work.  But it irks me greatly that I have to
> manually reposition my QMessageBoxes and QDialogs when it should be able
> to center itself automatically!  If the parent is a Qt Widget this works
> fine, no?  So it's only a problem if the parent is a QtMotifWidget.?
>


Step into the source code and find what's wrong.


> ...Jake
> 
> 
>>>>>> "BO" == BOUCARD Olivier <boucard_olivier at yahoo.fr> writes:
> 
>    BO> It should be preferable to use frameGeometry property instead of
>    BO> geometry to correctly center a window on the screen.
> 
>    BO> ________________________________
>    BO> De : David Boosalis <david.boosalis at gmail.com>
>    BO> À : Jake Colman <colman at ppllc.com>
>    BO> Cc : qt-interest at trolltech.com
>    BO> Envoyé le : Mer 29 septembre 2010, 16h 04min 53s
>    BO> Objet : Re: [Qt-interest] Anyone Using the Qt/Motif Extension
> 
>    BO> Could you not do something like this:
> 
>    BO> QRect rect= parentGeometry();
>    BO> QRect dialogRect = myDialog->geometry();
>    BO> int newX = rect.x() + (rect.width() - dialogRect.width())/2);
>    BO> int newY = rect.y()  + (rect.height() - dialogRect.height())/2);
>    myDialog-> move(newX,newY);
>    myDialog-> show()
> 
>    BO> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Jake Colman <colman at ppllc.com> wrote:
> 
>    >> My app is legacy Motif application that uses Qt for all of its new
>    >> screens.  As such, we make heavy use of the Qt/Motif extension.  I am
>    >> now in the process of porting from Qt 3.3.4 to Qt 4.7.0.  Most of the
>    >> app is running well and I am working out the kinks.  A major kink for me
>    >> is that dialog boxes are no longer centered over the dialog's parent
>    >> window.  Does anyone else have this issue or know what to do about it?
>    >> 
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