main window resize question

[wysota]

I tried your suggestion and it works somewhat in the test app - 'somewhat' because now I can't resize it any more. My actual problem is more like this post. Hiding vs. removing the widgets from the layout can be thought of as equivalent - or so I thought.

There is no sane way of adjusting the window size automatically and keeping the ability of resizing the window. Think what should happen if you resize the window manually and then an element gets hidden - should the window adjust its size (because an element was hidden) or retain it (because you resized it manually)? You can't eat the cake and keep the cake. You can program it manually but whichever behaviour you choose the other one will not work. You can try different size constraints but none of them will do exactly what you expect to achieve.