Looks like my message didn't make it. I found the solution and it definitely related to Creator and to user lack of knowledge of Creator. I'm a bit surprised that I was sent on a wild goose chase to resolve this.
The answer was surprisingly simple. All I had to do was modify the minimumSize.Width property to the size that I wanted and the geometry.Width picked it up. It seems kinda silly to have several different areas to set the width of the widget i'm playing with, Min size, Max size make sense. But adding a geometry completely messed me up here. Can anyone explain what the rational is here . Also, when I set the minimum width I got a vertical line on the right side of the dockWidget... something I've been trying to figure out how the sample did it, but with no luck. So I'm currently back playing with Creator and QT. Are there be any relevant books or tutorials dealing with this ? Ken On Jan 21, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Danny Price wrote: > We'll still be here when you come back :) > > On 21 Jan 2010, at 22:09, Coda Highland wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ken Ray <k...@ishere.com> wrote: >>> I tried qt-interest and not much of a response. Note that this test app I'm >>> trying to build is just like the fontsampler demo that comes with >>> creator/QT. I'm trying to duplicate the dockwidget on the left. How did >>> fontsampler get around this problem ? It seems to me that if Creator >>> can't hold a layout for more than a few clicks there is a serious flaw. It >>> makes working with all the contents related to that dockwidget a pain in >>> the ass. >>> >>> I'm going to go play with Mono now to see how there stuff is . >>> >>> I want some cross platform development that is stable. but if none is >>> stable , then I guess it's back to VS .net .. >> >> Mono is pretty gimped, sadly. Most of the "good" .NET stuff is >> Microsoft-only junk that's only available on Windows. Even Java would >> be preferable to .NET if you want cross-platform compatibility. >> >> You happened to hit on the one thing I don't like about Qt: dock >> widgets. I've never had a lot of luck with them, and when I do use >> them I develop with code, not Designer. There's several things that >> they don't do quite right. But don't let that one widget turn you off >> to the toolkit as a whole. Qt's very stable and very robust, and it's >> the best toolkit available for writing apps that look native on all >> supported platforms. >> >> Consider possibly using some other solution if dock widgets in >> Designer aren't working for you. Maybe construct the dock widgets in >> code, or maybe use some non-docking solution. >> >> /s/ Adam >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qt-creator mailing list >> Qt-creator@trolltech.com >> http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator > > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > Qt-creator@trolltech.com > http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
