Placing widget below dock area in MainWindow.

LiamMaru

A bit of a strange one, I want a window to be structured as follows:

!http://img863.imageshack.us/img863/1121/whatiwant.png(Image)!

The important bit being the widget that sits below the docking are. How can I achieve this?

giesbert

There are some possibilities:

You could create a custom status bar for that, use a non movable bottom tool bar, create a doc widget that is not undocable, ...

Does one of this solve your problem?

e.g.
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MySpecialToolBar p = new MySpecialToolBar(this);
p->setAllowedAreas(Qt::BottomToolBarArea);
p->setFloatable(false);
p->setMovable(false);
p->setOrientation(Qt::Horizontal);
addToolbar(Qt::BottomToolBarArea, p);
@

same works with DockWidgets:

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MySpeciaDockWidget p = new MySpeciaDockWidget(this);
p->setAllowedAreas (Qt::BottomDockWidgetArea);
p->setFeatures(QDockWidget::DockWidgetVerticalTitleBar); // no move, no float, no close!
addDockWidget(Qt::BottomDockWidgetArea, p, Qt::Horizontal);
@

LiamMaru

Thanks for the reply, I went with the extra dock. I did do a couple of extra things though.

First, remove the title bar:

@fixedDock->setTitleBarWidget(new QWidget());@

Second, fix the height:

@fixedDock->setFixedHeight(fixedDock->sizeHint().height());@

Third, make the other docks not stack with this one:

@anotherDock->setAllowedAreas(Qt::LeftDockWidgetArea | Qt::RightDockWidgetArea);@

giesbert

Hi,

it should also be possible, to remove the title bar with:

@
p->setFeatures(QDockWidget::NoDockWidgetFeatures);
@

instead of
@
p->setFeatures(QDockWidget::DockWidgetVerticalTitleBar);
@

LiamMaru

Nope, I tried that. You still get a title bar, but no close/minimise/float buttons. My method completely removes the title bar. The window, as of now, looks like this:

!http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1456/asofnow.png(image)!