Qt Designer suddenly not allowing new widgets or relocation of existing widgets

**luhill** · 30th March 2011, 19:59

I'm aware there are some similar posts, none of which characterize my problem.

Seemingly out of the blue, I can no longer drag existing widgets around on my form. I can also not drag new widgets out of the tool box (unlike other posts, the tool acts like I never even clicked on it)

I can still drag and resize the corners / edges of existing widgets on the form.
I can still manually enter x and y coordinates in the widgets' properties panel to move it around.

I cannot escape this behavior despite creating a new project, opening a sample project, or reinstalling QT. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

**wysota** · 30th March 2011, 20:07

If you're using some external application for customizing Windows look and feel then disable it and all will return to normal.

**luhill** · 30th March 2011, 20:20

Case closed. Solution: Reboot Computer

Thank you for the quick feedback however I am not using any such application.

After rebooting my computer designer started working properly. The fact that a reboot solved the issue while re-instillation didn't indicates the possibility of some external interference, though I have no idea what.