Splitter resize icon not shown

Christian Ehrlicher

So you don't mean a QSplitter but the change of the mouse cursor when you want to resize the sections?

leinad

Yes, that is correct.

Christian Ehrlicher

A quick check in designer preview I don't see such a behavior. Please write a small testcase to see if it really does not work on your system.

VRonin

Are you applying a stylesheet?

leinad

No stylesheet. I did another test and commented out the line above and still no icon. So now it has nothing to do with that code, just for some reason that icon does not appear. Very strange. Is there some code I can write to force it?

Christian Ehrlicher

Again: write a simple testcase to try to reproduce it.

leinad

Okay I figured out the problem but not sure why this would cause it. The problem has to do with starting and stopping the cursor;

This statement removes the resize icon from the splitter if I use it: All is in MainWindow.
QApplication::setOverrideCursor(Qt::WaitCursor); //shows wait spinner
QApplication::setOverrideCursor(Qt::ArrowCursor); //end wait spinner

This code does not effect the resize icon:
this->setCursor(Qt::WaitCursor);
this->setCursor(Qt::ArrowCursor);

Why would the setOverideCursor cause such a behavior?

leinad

In case someone ask the next logical question "why use the setOverrideCursor?" It is because sometimes the setCursor did not display the wait cursor as I expected where as the alternate did, but apparently it causes other issues :(

SGaist

Hi,

Because you did not call restoreOverrideCursor once done with the code that required setOverrideCursor in the first place.

leinad

Well, I went back through all the code and did fine to starts which occurred back to back. So I modified the code to have a single start and right after a single end but still the same issue. I even tried using restoreOverrideCursor but still no good.

leinad

This seems to work but not sure if it is the correct way.
startCursor()
{
QApplication::setOverrideCursor(Qt::WaitCursor);

}

leinad

Sorry for some reason the screen reset so I'll try again: This seems to work. Does it make sense?

startCursor()
{
QApplication::setOverrideCursor(Qt::WaitCursor);
}

endCursor()
{
QApplication::restoreOverrideCursor();
QApplication::setOverrideCursor(Qt::ArrowCursor);
QApplication::restoreOverrideCursor();
}