Very strange behavior of QWidget in Qt Designer

**THRESHE** · 19th June 2008, 17:12

Hi everyone

I've encountered a strange error while working with Qt Designer and my custom widget. I have several widgets in a horizontal layout. Most of them are QPushButtons and some are my custom widgets. To cut the long story short here is a screenshot

First of all its obvious that the widget (which I've replaced by the way with an empty QWidget) is not centred properly. When I try to set another minimal height to this widget it expands as if it had a strange padding.

Honestly I am confused

**THRESHE** · 21st June 2008, 12:20

Any ideas ??

**jpn** · 28th June 2008, 11:12

Are you using a custom widget plugin or just promoting?

PS. Don't use links to external sites but attach the image on this forum next time, please.

**THRESHE** · 12th August 2008, 15:30

Hi. I was waiting for a reply too long so I didn't check this thread

I'm using my custom widget as a plug-in. I thought that is obvious

**jpn** · 12th August 2008, 15:44

Well, after looking at the screenshot it's not so clear which is what. I guess QFilmOnSlider is the custom widget provided by a plugin. If it's not looking correct in the screenshot, how should it look like? Remember that we don't really know what you're implementing. Does the custom widget work properly in a layout? I mean, if you don't use Qt Designer but place the widget into a simple layout directly in code.

**THRESHE** · 12th August 2008, 16:05

Originally Posted by jpn

Well, after looking at the screenshot it's not so clear which is what.

My bad

Here it is.

Originally Posted by jpn

Does the custom widget work properly in a layout? I mean, if you don't use Qt Designer but place the widget into a simple layout directly in code.

Honestly I didn't try to do this outside the Designer

**THRESHE** · 13th August 2008, 14:29

Where are you jpn ?

**jpn** · 13th August 2008, 14:34

Honestly, I don't know what should I say, or what do you expect...

Personally I would first assure that my custom widget works in layouts before even trying to integrate it to Qt Designer.

**THRESHE** · 13th August 2008, 15:46

Originally Posted by jpn

Personally I would first assure that my custom widget works in layouts before even trying to integrate it to Qt Designer.

How can I do that?

**jpn** · 13th August 2008, 16:05

Create a test app. Install a layout on the window and add different widgets to the layout (including your custom widgets) and check how it behaves when you resize the window.