QTextEdit on top of QGraphicsView, not QGraphicsScene

[genjix]

I have a QGraphicsView and want to add a QTextEdit on top of that, which resizes with the whole window. I parent it to the view, instead of the scene since the text needs to remain the same size.

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def resizeEvent(self, event):
        # .....
        winSize = self.contentsRect().size()
        winw, winh = winSize.width(), winSize.height()
        self.chat.resize(winw*0.5, winh*0.5)
        self.chat.move(10,winh*0.5)

def resizeEvent(self, event):
        # .....
        winSize = self.contentsRect().size()
        winw, winh = winSize.width(), winSize.height()
        self.chat.resize(winw*0.5, winh*0.5)
        self.chat.move(10,winh*0.5)

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At the moment I resize it manually in the resizeEvent, but it's ugly since when you resize it updates and when scrollbars appear, it becomes transparent and I don't know how to turn it off.

How should I be doing this?

It's as if the widget has no 'sense' of the size of the window. If I could attach another widget to the window layered on top of the QGraphicsView below then this could be easily be solved by using layouts.

window.setWidget(QGraphicsScene); window.setWidget2(interactableGui)

That sort of thing