GUI enhancement

[yazwas]

Hello Everyone,

I have a few questions about User Interface in Qt

I'm using Qt creator to do my work, I have a QMainWindow application , which contains central widget, also it contains dock widgets

I have 2 issues at this point

1- There is not distinction in the boundaries between the central widget, and the dock widgets, also no distention between the dock widgets themselves, so how to solve this issue?

2- the dockabe widgets always start very wide, and I have to resize it manually every time, even though I have put the size policy to minimum to every dock widget

I've attached a picture with what I already have

thanks very much

[wysota]

1- There is not distinction in the boundaries between the central widget, and the dock widgets,
What do you mean? I can see a thick vertical line on your screenshot.


2- the dockabe widgets always start very wide, and I have to resize it manually every time, even though I have put the size policy to minimum to every dock widget
Do not enforce policies on the dock windows. Do that on widgets inside them.

[yazwas]

What do you mean? I can see a thick vertical line on your screenshot.

The thick vertical line is not the boundary, its a frame thats within the central widget itself, not the boundary

[wysota]

Are you sure you added the dock windows to the main window properly? Can you show us the code you have written to do that?

[yazwas]

Are you sure you added the dock windows to the main window properly? Can you show us the code you have written to do that?

I think so, because I used the QtCreator GUI interface to do that, so I did not write any code to create the dock widgets and add them,

I've attached a screenshot for Object/class view I have
hopefully this will help

[wysota]

Object hierarchy is not enough to say anything. Post the real ui file.

[yazwas]

Object hierarchy is not enough to say anything. Post the real ui file.

This is the real ui*.h file for the main application

i've zipped it because its not acceptable as a .h file, its larger than acceptable

Thanks in advance

[wysota]

I meant the ui file (the one saved by Designer).

[yazwas]

I meant the ui file (the one saved by Designer).

Here it is

Thanks

[wysota]

And what is wrong with it exactly? There are splitters dividing the components and the width of dock widgets is clearly determined by their contents... So?