Have you tried to set the size policy to: """ ... class Test(QtGui.QWidget): ... self.setSizePolicy(QtGui.QSizePolicy.MinimumExpanding, QtGui.QSizePolicy.MinimumExpanding) ... """
The Test widget will have the minimum size specified by the sizeHint, and yet the MainWindow can still grow. Yao On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please excuse me for bumping. Does anyone have a suggestion? > > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a question about size hints that can be illustrated with the >> simple example below. If I create my Test widget so it returns a size >> hint of (200,100), it is rendered with a size of 200, 100. If I create >> Test so it is 100x70, it is rendered to be 200x100. If I create test >> to be 1000x700, it is rendered to be 853x533 (my screen resolution is >> 1280x800). If I set the size policy to be fixed, then the central >> widget size policy is respected, but I can't resize the window. How >> can I make m respect the size hint of the central widget, but still >> maintain the ability to resize the window? >> >> Thank you, >> Darren >> >> >> import sys >> from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui >> >> class Test(QtGui.QWidget): >> >> def __init__(self, width, height): >> QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self) >> #self.setSizePolicy(QtGui.QSizePolicy.Fixed, QtGui.QSizePolicy.Fixed) >> print 'Central widget should have width=%d, height=%d' %(width, >> height) >> self._width = width >> self._height = height >> >> def sizeHint(self): >> return QtCore.QSize(self._width, self._height) >> >> app = QtGui.QApplication([]) >> m = QtGui.QMainWindow() >> c = Test(1000, 700) >> m.setCentralWidget(c) >> m.show() >> s = c.size() >> print 'but central widget has width=%d, height=%d'% (s.width(), s.height()) >> sys.exit(app.exec_()) >> > _______________________________________________ > PyQt mailing list p...@riverbankcomputing.com > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt