QDockWidget/Central Widget Problem

[Usability]

Hi!

I'm working on the application with the user interface, based around the docking widgets. The ide is that all parts of the UI should be resizable, movable and floatable. The problem is that there is no central widget in my application.
/Lemming/

It turns out that you can work with a QMainWindow populated only with QDockWidgets, and have those widgets share all available space, provided you follow 2 requirements:

1.
All the QDockWidgets must have the same setting for docWidgetArea, e.g. Qt:BottomDockWidgetArea. You cannot mix, bottom, left or right. Of course you can set allowedAreas to Qt:AllDockWidgetAreas and the user can then distribute them as they wish.

2.
There must be no central widget. Designer always creates one of these called centralwidget, so simply delete the sucker in your QMainWindow constructor.

[Arthur]

Hello,

I tried this with the dockwidgets example delivered in Qt 4.4.1

- setCentralWidget(0) in the intialization
- All QDockWidgets have Qt::AllDockWidgetAreas as dock settings

It seems that I dock the QWidgets horizontally and I can create tabs, but I cannot arrange them vertically.

Is there any solution to this?

[FelixB]

Hi,

I was facing the same problem as Arthur: I have a QMainWindow without central widget and was not able to arrange QDockWidgets vertically. Finally I found a solution:

QMainWindow->setDockNestingEnabled(true)

Felix

[mkh]

This should do the trick:

centralWidget()->hide();

centralWidget()->hide();

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