QMessageBox Size

[locus]

I am trying to set the size of a message box that i have created as follows:

QMessageBox msgBox(this);
msgBox.setWindowTitle(tr("MailBox Location"));
 
msgBox.setInformativeText(tr("You must ..... and so on and so forth"));

QMessageBox msgBox(this);
msgBox.setWindowTitle(tr("MailBox Location"));

msgBox.setInformativeText(tr("You must ..... and so on and so forth"));

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I have tried the following:

1). msgbox.setGeometry ( int x, int y, int w, int h )
 
2). msgbox.resize(int w, int h)

1). msgbox.setGeometry ( int x, int y, int w, int h )

2). msgbox.resize(int w, int h)

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and nothing seems to affect the way the box is diplayed, interms of its size that is.

any suggestion is welcomed.


Thanks in advance.

[jpn]

Looks like QMessageBox::showEvent() forces it to fixed size according to various factors. One ugly way to work it around is:

class MyMessageBox : public QMessageBox {
protected:
	void showEvent(QShowEvent* event) {
		QMessageBox::showEvent(event);
		setFixedSize(640, 480);
	}
};

class MyMessageBox : public QMessageBox {
protected:
	void showEvent(QShowEvent* event) {
		QMessageBox::showEvent(event);
		setFixedSize(640, 480);
	}
};

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[J_Courbon]

It seems that reimplementing the function showEvent() is not the good way because a resizeEvent may occur after it. One (still ugly) way is to reimplement the resizeEvent function:

class MyMessageBox : public QMessageBox {
         protected:
                  void resizeEvent(QResizeEvent* event) {
                            setFixedSize(640, 480);
                    }
};

class MyMessageBox : public QMessageBox {
         protected:
                  void resizeEvent(QResizeEvent* event) {
                            setFixedSize(640, 480);
                    }
};

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