On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 00:17, David Boddie <da...@boddie.org.uk> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 April 2011, Sarah Mount wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 21:45, David Boddie <da...@boddie.org.uk> wrote: >> >
<snip: long docking discussion> > The "center widget" or central area in the main window is a normal widget > that you can place any other widgets in. This includes dock widgets, but > they aren't designed to be used like that. They are supposed to be managed > separately by the main window, "outside" the central area. Qt Designer does > a reasonable job of letting you configure this, but it is constrained by its > widgets-on-a-form approach to UI design. > > If it turns out that you aren't using all the features of dock widgets in > your application, you can design the kind of UI you describe using splitters > instead. If you want to do that, just ask and I can give more details. > Thanks, that diagram made a lot of sense, I've re-worked the GUI with splitters, and, like you say, that's much more what I was looking for. I didn't realise that splitters could be resized, and I can add some actions for closing each pane. Many thanks, 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