[Qt-interest] QDialog with wrong contentsMargins()

[Anton Chernov]

I forgot to write px to units :)

setStyleSheet( QString( "QDialog { margin: %1*px*; }" ).arg( value ) );

2011/8/29 Kishore Jonnalagadda <kitts.mailinglists at gmail.com>

> On Aug 27, 2011 7:33 PM, "Anton Chernov" <mechernov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Use style sheets - QString( "QDialog { margin: %1; }" ).arg( value );
> >
> > Set on the main window, or any other global parents.
>
> Did not work. I tried applying this stylesheet on both the application and
> to the dialog directly but it did not help.
>
> > 2011/8/26 Kishore Jonnalagadda <kitts.mailinglists at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> In alomost all my QDialog subclasses (using designer), I find that i
> need to
> >> add this to the constructor.
> >>
> >>    layout()->setContentsMargins(
> >>        style()->pixelMetric(QStyle::PM_LayoutLeftMargin),
> >>        style()->pixelMetric(QStyle::PM_LayoutTopMargin),
> >>        style()->pixelMetric(QStyle::PM_LayoutRightMargin),
> >>        style()->pixelMetric(QStyle::PM_LayoutBottomMargin));
> >>
> >> Without that it uses 11 pixels as the margins which is said to be the
> common
> >> default in the docs but is dependent on the style. Here on my system
> with the
> >> Oxygen style it should be 4 pixels (which is what is shown in designer
> when
> >> designing the dialog). However, i have to explicitly set it with the
> code
> >> above.
> >>
> >> 11 pixels is a bit too much and looks ugly. While i atleast have the
> option of
> >> putting the code above for most dialogs, the same i can't do with a
> QWizard
> >> (layout() return a NULL).
> >>
> >> I'd like to know if my understanding is wrong* or if this is indeed a
> bug in
> >> Qt/Oxygen?
> >> --
> >> Cheers!
> >> Kishore
> >>
> >> * The layout system for widgets is quite complex I yet have not a grasp
> of how
> >> things work.
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