On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 21:45, David Boddie <da...@boddie.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon Apr 25 21:50:43 BST 2011, Sarah Mount wrote: > >> In designer-qt4 the object inspector, widget box and so on seem to be >> QDockWidgets. I'm making a GUI in Designer that I want to be similarly >> structured. In designer the edge of each QDockWidget can be grabbed >> with the mouse and resized, but in my GUI this isn't possible. I >> *think* I've set all of the dockWidget properties and the widgets can >> be closed and floated, but not resized. Have I misunderstood this? Is >> there some sort of splitter object that needs to be placed between the >> dockWidgets? Or some property set in the layout managers? > > Which version of Qt Designer are you using? Did you manually place the > dock widget into a layout?
This is Designer 4.7.2 on Ubuntu Natty and the docks are going inside a Main Window widget, with a grid layout applied to them. > In older versions of Qt Designer, dropping a dock widget onto a main window > form simply left it floating, unmanaged, unless the central area was > managed by a layout. In newer versions, the dock window is automatically > docked by default - at least, it seems that way. > > If you have a dock window embedded in a main window, and you can't move it > when you preview the form, try breaking the layout of the window, selecting > the dock widget, and setting its docked property to true. It should appear > in one of the dock areas around the sides of the window and be handled > separately to the widgets in the main window itself. This seems to be the problem, and like you say, if I break the layout and set the widgets to docked they become resizable, oddly. However, I have three QDockWidgets, one that is intended to stretch over the bottom of the main window, and the other two above it side by side, like this: [][] [ ] I've set all of the sizePolicy properties to Expanding; the lower dockWidget expands correctly both horizontally and vertically. The top two widgets will expand vertically but leave a large gap in the centre of the main window when resizing the main window horizontally. This worked just fine when I was applying a grid layout to the centralWidget. Any ideas? It all seems a bit counter-intuitive to me! Many thanks again, Sarah -- Sarah Mount, Senior Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton website: http://www.snim2.org/ twitter: @snim2 _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt