I believe that I found the fix for this. This is definitely a Creator issue :) , and a user issue (not knowing how use Creator) .
The fix is real simple. All I had to do was set the minimumSize . Width property to the value I wanted and the geometry . Width picked it up . Wow this property regarding sizes is confusing. It doesn't seem to make sense to have a width that doesn't stick, but yet have another minimum width that does. Can anyone explain the logic behind that ? Also, after doing that a border line on the right hand side of the dockWidget showed up. I wanted that but couldn't find how the sample was doing it. What caused that to show up ? On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > The demo is not fixed. If you look at it running it is completely sizable ... > which is what I want . > > On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:15 PM, John Vilburn wrote: > >> If you want a fixed size widget, set the size policy for that widget to >> fixed. >> >> On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Ken Ray 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 .. >>> >>> >>> On Jan 20, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Thomas Dähling wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Ken, >>>> >>>> so if this also happens in the external designer, then you might want >>>> to switch this discussion over to qt-interest if you consider this to >>>> be a Qt defect :-) >>>> >>>> /Thomas >>>> >>>> 2010/1/20 Ken Ray <[email protected]>: >>>>> Not true. I just tried it in the external Designer. I changed the size of >>>>> the dockWidget to 250. Then simply clicked on another widget.. a >>>>> textEdit. The dockWidget immediately resized itself automatically. >>>>> >>>>> On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Coda Highland wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> That's Designer, which happens to be embedded in Creator. The only way >>>>>> this is directly Creator-related is if it doesn't happen when using >>>>>> the external Designer. >>>>>> >>>>>> /s/ Adam >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Ken Ray <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> This is directly related to Creator. I'm building the layout of the >>>>>>> form using Creator, and Creator is not saving my changes. >>>>>>> On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Coda Highland wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This question should be directed toward the qt-interest mailing list. >>>>>>>> The qt-creator ML is specifically for discussion about the Qt Creator >>>>>>>> IDE, not for programs you're writing using it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> /s/ Adam >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Ken Ray <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hey, I'm getting started with QT, so bear with me. I've been trying >>>>>>>>> to work with a Dockwidget that has a treewidget inside of it. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 1) I did a layout vertical layout on the dockWidgetContents and it >>>>>>>>> caused the contained treeview to shrink in size (large borders), is >>>>>>>>> there a way to avoid that behavior ? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 2) I changed the size of the dockWidget to a certain width, with >>>>>>>>> policy being preferred, preferred. This is all done in Creator 1.3.1 >>>>>>>>> . I then opened a source file and then went bak to the ui view. The >>>>>>>>> dockWidget had reset it's size back to it's original size. There >>>>>>>>> doesn't seem to be anything I can do to keep it from auto resizing >>>>>>>>> itself. Is this a bug ? 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