can't get qgraphicsgridlayout to resize properly

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 August 2009 03:58:11 Amritpal Bath wrote:
> > I've got a Plasma::Applet containing a QGraphicsGridLayout, which has a
> > couple of QGraphicsWidgets (QLabels via QGraphicsProxyWidget).
> >
> > The text in my layout gets updated periodically after running an external
> > process, but I can't quite get the resizing to work properly.  I've
> > attached a similar example, with a layout containing two QPushButtons.
> >
> > I try to adjust the height of the buttons, layout, AND the Applet, but
> > nothing I've tried will make the buttons taller.  It sounds like maybe
> > I'm missing something about QSizePolicy, but I'm not sure.
> >
> > Can someone please explain the relationship between Plasma::Applet and
> > QLayout, and why the attached code does not make the buttons taller?  As
> > you can see from the .cpp, I've tried most/all things I could find.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> I didn't test your code, but it looks a lot like an issue I'm running into
> all the time when working on graphicswidgets that resize themselves.
>
> It would be good if Alexis (or someone else working on QGraphicsLayouts)
> could have a look at this, it looks simple enough for a testcase and would
> be very useful to have a fix for.
don't worry, at tokamak we'll close him in a dark wet room until everything 
will work
right alexis? :p

>
> Did you try without the proxywidget stuff, so using QGraphicsWidgets
> directly, btw? That would make an even cleaner testcase.
>
> It would be very nice to see this fixed indeed...
>
> Cheers,


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Marco Martin