[Suggestion] Make splitters in Qt Creator with hot tacking and little widely

rokemoon

I suggest to make splitters more widely, because sometimes it's realy hard to hit them with the mouse.
I have to very carefully aiming on it, and it's very annoying.
Maybe make splitters supporting hot tracking, for better visibility.
For example: when help widget opens and I want to resize it, I had to aims on splitter for that action.
And I create this suggestion in "Jira":https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTCREATORBUG-6369?focusedCommentId=166204#comment-166204
How you look at this proposal?

goetz

Good idea! I voted for it.

tobias.hunger

We look at the entries in JIRA, so you did exactly the right thing by logging it there:-)

Eddy

You have my vote too.

Glad you're back ;)

rokemoon

[quote author="Eddy" date="1319192473"]You have my vote too.

Glad you're back ;)[/quote]
Thank's Eddy :-).

andre

It should at least become a bit clearer where splitters exist. For instance, if you have the search box open in a code editor, the splitter is under the search box. That is not obvious at all though...

rokemoon

[quote author="Andre" date="1319195927"]It should at least become a bit clearer where splitters exist. For instance, if you have the search box open in a code editor, the splitter is under the search box. That is not obvious at all though...[/quote]
For that case I think it will be suitable to have hot tracking, like standart QSplitter.

andre

I am confused. Could you explain what you mean by hot tracking?

goetz

I guess it a change in the cursors (that would be handy at least): Qt::ArrowCursor vs Qt::SplitVCursor and Qt::SplitHCursor (see [[Doc:QCursor]] for images).

Right now, the cursor does not change when hovering over a splitter, so nobody "sees" that there is one.

andre

The cursor does change for me. Problem is that I need to hunt for places where the cursor does that.

goetz

It sometimes changes for me, sometimes not. Somtimes it changes only if press the mouse button on the right "hot spot" to drag the splitter.

rokemoon

[quote author="Andre" date="1319196960"]I am confused. Could you explain what you mean by hot tracking?[/quote]
Sorry, I mean when mouse hover splitter it draws with another color.

tobias.hunger

IIRC there are bug reports about these issues in JIRA for ages! It is not so straight forward to do due to the custom themeing we do, or so I was told.

Feel free to "provide some patches":https://codereview.qt-project.org/ to fix this;-)

rokemoon

[quote author="Tobias Hunger" date="1319361096"]IIRC there are bug reports about these issues in JIRA for ages! It is not so straight forward to do due to the custom themeing we do, or so I was told.

Feel free to "provide some patches":https://codereview.qt-project.org/ to fix this;-)[/quote]
Thanks Tobias, I'll think about it as soon as I find time (right now I have many work, little daughter :) and English language courses, so it's a bit difficult with time :-) )