On 27.04.11 00:50:14, Sarah Mount wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 00:17, David Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 April 2011, Sarah Mount wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 21:45, David Boddie <[email protected]> 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.
Splitters also allow to close the pane with an easy way to re-open it later. See the childrenCollapsible property, which defaults to true. Andreas _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
