Splitter resize icon not shown

leinad

Hi,

I have a GUI that uses several splitters. When I put my mouse over the splitter, I get this small icon with double parallel lines and arrows pointing in opposite direction which tells the user the way the splitters can be moved out or in which is perfect. However when I use this command to force the horizontal scroll to scroll per item:

treeView->setHorizontalScrollMode(QTreeView::ScrollPerItem); //stay at latest column

the little icon I described above goes away. I can still resize everything but there is no icon so it is not obvious to the user on how they can expand or reduce the size of the view.

Can someone explain to me why this is the case and how I can get my resize icon back?

Thanks again.

Christian Ehrlicher

Please provide a minimal example. Don't know what splitters should have to do with a QTreeView.

leinad

Not sure how to write an example, the splitters and treeViews are built with Qtcreator. I just added a line in MainWindow to force the horizontal scroll to scrollPerItem. If I comment that out, I see the icon.

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();
}