[solved] Qt QRect geometry negative position (Windows)

[brcontainer]

bq. Solution:
I solved using the function QMainWindow::move()

Indeed the geometry is not negative,
the problem is to set the x and y the setGeometry is not considering the window border nor bar tute as working directly with the centralWidget instead of the whole window.
This causes the titleBar and go away from the left edge of the screen.

I believe it should be some thing missing is configured in the UI file

bq. Note: I only tested it on windows7

Follow the simple example in QT:

mainwindow.cpp

@#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
QMainWindow(parent),
ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
ui->setupUi(this);

QRect test(0,0,300,240);
setGeometry(test);
}

MainWindow::~MainWindow()
{
delete ui;
}@

---

mainwindow.ui

@<ui version="4.0">
<class>MainWindow</class>
<widget class="QMainWindow" name="MainWindow" >
<property name="geometry" >
<rect>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
<width>400</width>
<height>300</height>
</rect>
</property>
<property name="windowTitle" >
<string>MainWindow</string>
</property>
<widget class="QMenuBar" name="menuBar" />
<widget class="QToolBar" name="mainToolBar" />
<widget class="QWidget" name="centralWidget" />
<widget class="QStatusBar" name="statusBar" />
</widget>
<layoutDefault spacing="6" margin="11" />
<pixmapfunction></pixmapfunction>
<resources/>
<connections/>
</ui>@

---

main.cpp

@#include "mainwindow.h"
#include <QApplication>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QApplication a(argc, argv);
MainWindow w;
w.show();

return a.exec();
}@

---

mainwindow.h

@#ifndef MAINWINDOW_H
#define MAINWINDOW_H

#include <QMainWindow>

namespace Ui {
class MainWindow;
}

class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
{
Q_OBJECT

public:
explicit MainWindow(QWidget *parent = 0);
~MainWindow();

private:
Ui::MainWindow *ui;
};

#endif // MAINWINDOW_H@

---

untitled2.pro

@QT += core gui

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

TARGET = untitled2
TEMPLATE = app

SOURCES += main.cpp
mainwindow.cpp

HEADERS += mainwindow.h

FORMS += mainwindow.ui@

[raven-worx]

what do you actually want to achieve?!

to get the height at least from the title bar you can try the following:
@
QStyle * style = mainWindow->style();
QStyleOptionTitleBar so;
so.titleBarFlags = Qt::Window;
int titlebarHeight = style->pixelMetric(QStyle::PM_TitleBarHeight, &so, mainWindow);
@

[brcontainer]

@raven-worx thanks, but also has the borders of the window.

I solved using the function QMainWindow::move()

Thanks.