I want to open a new window aligned with the try icon (as the built-in volume control does)! :/
I found something about QRect QSystemTrayIcon::geometry()
But idk how to use it
I would recommend using Qt::Popup flags on your widget.
https://forum.qt.io/topic/6632/use-of-popup-window
QWidget* popupWidget = new QWidget();
popupWidget->setWindowFlags(Qt::Popup);
Pretty much anything else has a lot of corner cases that are hard to cover, like if your window is too tall, goes off the edge of the screen, etc.
Hope that helps.
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I know how to set my application to start in full screen by settin gthe following in the main.cpp:
MainWindow w;
w.setWindowState(Qt::WindowMaximized);
w.show();
However, when in full-screen, all my widgets goes into the left-top corner.
How to centralized my widgets when in full screen ?! and alike when minimizing the screen to normal size ?!
(a tutorial will be much helpful too)
You need to use layouts when designing your GUIs.
You can look at the Layout Management page on the Qt documentaion.
Also the following video on layouts might be helpful.
Qt - by default - doesn't do anything with window contents when you re-size it. All widgets'll be exactly the same size as were before, so behavior you describes is perfectly fine.
To force window contents to adjust position and size of your widgets you must associate Layout Manager with container.
The easiest way to do it is to fire up Qt Creator and open desired window with UI desinger. Then right click on the container you want to associate Layout Manager and use layout item from context menu.
I thing those article and examples should help you.
I was looking at this article
How to make a Qt Widget grow with the window size?
but when i got to the answer I got stuck on "activating" the central widget. I notice an icon with a red circle so I guess that means its disabled. I've been searching the net to try to figure out how to "activate" it but I am not having any luck.
Can someone please help me out?
Have a look at the layout system.
That icon does not mean your QWidget is disabled, that just mean you do not apply a layout on it.
Try to press like Ctrl+1 in order to apply a basic layout. If nothing has changed, you might need to put a QWidget inside the central widget first and then apply the layout.
Is it there a way to set a QMainWindow to be non-resizible in Qt Designer? I am seeing lots of coding examples but I want to do as much UI customization in Qt Designer as I can. So far I can only get this by setting the minimum size and maximum size to be equal, but still there is the resize arrow in the corner of the window and a "maximize" button on the top of the window.
When you select the QMainWindow, the properties of the object does contain a field for sizePolicy, both horizontal and vertical, as mentioned by the answer of #jester and you can set those to fixed.
I have found that doesn't always work and was never sure why (perhaps to due to layouts), but as you've found out, if you set the minimumSize and maximumSize fields to the same value, it does what you want.
As for the resize arrow and maximize button, I have never been able to do that from Qt Creator (designer), so I would say it's not possible. However, just one line of code is all you should need in the constructor of your class: -
setWindowFlags(Qt::Window | Qt::CustomizeWindowHint);
By default, the window flags include Qt::WindowMaximizeButtonHint. By setting the above flags, you're stating that you want to customise the window to include the specified elements. This will also remove the minimise button, so if you want that too, you should add Qt::WindowMinimizeButtonHint
I am not using Qt Designer; I am just writing a subclass of QMainWindow made from scratch. The solution I found for having a non-resizable window is to call setFixedSize on the QMainWindow after you have set up all your widgets and layouts. If you have set things up well, then you don't have to pick a size manually; you can just get the size from sizeHint. The line of code I used inside my subclass of QMainWindow is:
setFixedSize(sizeHint());
I tested this in Qt 5.5 on Windows 8.1 and everything looks fine: the maximize button gets disabled but the other buttons are still there, and the cursor does not indicate the possibility of resizing when the user moves it to the border.
use the setFixedSize property for the QMainWindow. In designer, if I remember correctly, you can set the horizontal and vertical sizePolicy to Fixed.
Sadly there is no option to do that; in VS you may find an option in the editor, to remove the mouse trigger that resize the window; but for some reason, QT5 does not have one.
I tried to use sizePolicy and set it as fixed for mainWindow; but this does nothing for both the horizontal and vertical policy.
To solve the problem, I did set my mainwindow minimum and maximum size as the same values; and when you run the application, the mouse cursor won't be enabled for resizing.
It is an ugly way to do something so simple, but this is the only way I found in QT designer, without use code.
I solved the problem of Qt5 which is displaying mouse arrow resize window even with window having fixed size, but in Python, but you can make modifications for C++.
MainWindow.setWindowFlags(QtCore.Qt.MSWindowsFixedSizeDialogHint)
It's an old post but I want to help if someone need it.
I found a way (not so beautiful) but it works directly from QTDesigner.
You can lock the resize by writing the values of height and width also inside "MinimumSize" and "MaximumSize" property.
Oviously also set "Fixed" on vertical and horizontal as told by other users.
This will remove the button to enlarge the window.
I am having a problem redrawing a QWidget window after its size has been adjusted. I have tried update(), repaint(), adjustSize(), but all seem to suffer from the same thing: only part of the window is redrawn, resulting in the window frame on the bottom and right sides to not show. The window is also not resized entirely.
Just in case it makes a difference, the window is in a QMdiArea.
Thanks.
// ... some subwidget resizing and moving.
calibrationWindowUIs[activeWindow].layoutWidget2->move(QPoint(oldXLeft, 30 + height + 21));
calibrationWindowUIs[activeWindow].layoutWidget1->move(QPoint(oldXRight, 30 + height + 21));
// Set window size.
calibrationWindows[activeWindow]->setMinimumSize(calibrationWindowUIs[activeWindow].tabWidget->geometry().width() + 40, calibrationWindowUIs[activeWindow].tabWidget->geometry().height() + 40);
calibrationWindows[activeWindow]->update();
Note: I'm new to Qt; perhaps I'm doing something wrong with layouts?
Edit: I may have not given enough information. Alright, to be quite honest, I still have to delve deeper into layouts and related material. What I had tried to do here was to use Qt Designer in order to design the window. I've done what perhaps amounts to a stupid mistake: I didn't use an overall parent layout for the entire window, but hacked it with a couple of smaller layouts that I therefore have to move about and resize individually. See the Qt Designer screen (the red rectangles are the sole layouts): .
What is happening is that in the frame to the right, I am playing a video clip that can be of various resolutions. I want the frame to resize depending on this resolution, which also means that the buttons and window have to move/resize accordingly. That is where the window resize comes in. I'm sure there is a more elegant solution than what I am doing here, but I am trying to handle several other scenarios here and hence the lack of quality of code.
The result is that when I load a clip, the window attempts to resize, but does so badly; the following is the result:
If the window is dragged, it 'pops' into its correct size; in the meantime, however, it just looks ugly.
A couple further questions: do you use the Qt Designer to design your UIs? I found that programmatically you can achieve much better control of your interfaces. One thing which I could not do in the designer was to have a layout parented by the main widget, i.e. the equivalent of having the following bit of code:
QVBoxLayout* layout = new QVBoxLayout;
this->setLayout(layout);
A layout placed in the designer always seems to create this 'layoutWidget' subwidget, which the layout you placed is then parented to. Any way around that?
We use a mix of designer and code to create layouts, the Qt layout system can be very unintuitive at times. But I would probably not layout a full series of tabs in one designer ui file, i would make each tab each own widget and then assemble them either through code or in the designer by promoting to custom classes. This gives you better separation of responsibilities, by putting all the functionality of all the tabs into one file you almost guarantee a large unwieldy class.
When a widget has child widgets in designer you can assign a layout to it by adding it from the context menu. Make sure nothing is selected and click on the background of the widget in which you want to create a layout, select the layout and all of the widgets children will be assigned the layout.
What does help is creating hierarchies of layouts. Looking at your first screenshot, i would probably use a vertical layout with spacers on top and bottom for the items on the right, an horizontal layout with spacers left and right for the button bar and a grid layout for all the items together. Without the spacers your items will extend when the window grows. The spacers will let you control the behavior under resizing better.
you are calling setMinimumSize(). That's fine, but you should also call resize()
I want to place some widgets in a parent widget in some random places, like one button at Point (10,10) and another at (15,40), etc. How to achieve this?. QGridLayout is pushing everything into row column style. But I want to put the widgets whereever I want,Can anybody help me?
If you really want to set absolute positions, I would ignore using a layout altogether. You can manually set the positions of elements by using the move() function or the setGeometry() function.
QWidget *parent = new QWidget();
parent->resize(400, 400);
QPushButton *buttonA = new QPushButton(parent);
buttonA->setText("First Button");
buttonA->move(10, 10);
QPushButton *buttonB = new QPushButton(parent);
buttonB->setText("Second Button");
buttonB->move(15, 40);
Side note: I would avoid setting absolute positions of elements in Qt. Why? Well, Qt tries to be a platform-independent GUI library. On different platforms, a lot of display things can change (i.e. font size of text in push buttons) so the size of your actual push buttons can vary to accommodate large or smaller font sizes. This can throw off your meticulously spaced push buttons is you use absolute positions as in the example above.
If you use layouts, overlapping buttons or buttons falling off the edge of your window can be avoided.
You can see my answer for overlay button in QT: Qt Widget Overlays. This may help you to achieve what you want.