Creating a rectangular icon

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On March 3, 2010, Antony Loebs wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > On March 2, 2010, Antony Loebs wrote:
> > > Ok, when I added
> > > self.layout.setPreferredWidth(120)
> > > that displays it correctly, but now it doesn't expand or contract at
> > > all horizontally. It does expand and contract vertically, however.
> > > What
> > 
> > should
> > 
> > > I add so that the height and the width of the image scale relative to
> > 
> > each
> > 
> > > other?
> > 
> > in theory, KeepAspectRatio, but in practice that's not paid attention to
> > by the panel. you'll need to keep the pixmap in ratio in your paint
> > event.
> 
> Hmm...I added the following
> def paintEvent(self, event):
>     size = self.geometry()
>     height = size.height()
>     self.resize(height * 4, height)
> 
> But that doesn't work. Do I need to completely re-implement drawing the
> pixmap in paintEvent?

yes; which isn't hard (it's one call). and you don't want to be resizing 
yourself in the paintEvent (that has the potential for endless looping due to 
resize -> repaint -> resize..)

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