GUI enhancement

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

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Originally Posted by yazwas

1- There is not distinction in the boundaries between the central widget, and the dock widgets,

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

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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

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Do not enforce policies on the dock windows. Do that on widgets inside them.

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Originally Posted by wysota

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

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

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?

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Originally Posted by 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?

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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

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

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Originally Posted by wysota

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

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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

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

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Originally Posted by wysota

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

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Here it is

Thanks

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?