QTableView Splitter and pictures

[marcel]

You said : //next, add the splitter to some container widget.

I was meaning a layout, in case you have one. If the splitter is the central widget of your window then you do not need this step.

The form now comes up with the view and the label only a few pixels in size.

This is because your splitter has no layout manager to handle its size and position.
Either set the splitter as the central widget of your main window or if you use a QDialog instead, then set a QHorizontalLayout as the dialog's layout and use layout->addWidget(splitter), causing it to resize to the full client area of the dialog.

EDIT: if you want more control over the splitter's widget sizes the I suggest using QSplitter::setSizes() or QSplitter::setStretchFactor().

[JeanC]

Thanks Marcel,

I'm looking at QSplitter::setSizes()
I could maybe use screenheight returned from the desktop class to set heights..

but..
I was wandering how to do this:

Either set the splitter as the central widget of your main window

I hopefully tried
split = centralwidget;

But that is wrong

[marcel]

If you have a QMainWindow in your application then you should use, in one of the main window's members:

setCentralWidget(splitter);

setCentralWidget(splitter);

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You should browse through the Qt examples. You can find a lot of useful stuff there, including splitters and main windows.

[JeanC]

He Marcel,

I gave up on the splitter for now, as this is my first linux/qt project I thought i'd better start with something more modest, also because I want to learn the designer.

Thanks for the help,.

[marcel]

I gave up on the splitter for now, as this is my first linux/qt project I thought i'd better start with something more modest, also because I want to learn the designer.

Designer is just a tool. There is nothing you can do in Designer that you can't do in code.
So my suggestion is to start browsing the examples and look at their sources. This is the only way you can learn.
Playing with designer now will lead you nowhere.

[JeanC]

I understand and you are probably right in terms of learning proces. Still I like to play with designer a bit, call me pigheaded if you like, but I want to be able to use that tool for quick design.

I have located the examples and I am still seeing things for the first time but I am learning and I will probably be on my way in a few days.

Thanks.

Designer is just a tool. There is nothing you can do in Designer that you can't do in code.
So my suggestion is to start browsing the examples and look at their sources. This is the only way you can learn.
Playing with designer now will lead you nowhere.