Zoom - what is the best way to do this?

[Dolphin]

My app will be used by people of differing eye sight levels so requires the kind of zoom you get on other applications (e.g. IE and drawing applications). Is there a more elegant way than just going through all the items on the window and resizing them? (Currently just had a listWidget and a couple of buttons, purpose-built very simple UI).

[DerManu]

You could place your whole UI in a QGraphicsView and use "QGraphicsProxyWidget":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qgraphicsproxywidget.html#details to embed QWidgets there. Then zooming should be as easy as calling scale on the graphicsview/scene.

[Dolphin]

Fab, I will try that :-)

[qxoz]

Or you can zoom by changing font size:
@void Dialog::on_pushButton_clicked()
{
QFont ff = this->font();
ff.setPointSize(22);
this->setFont(ff);
this->resize(sizeHint());
}@

[DerManu]

[quote author="qxoz" date="1338807631"]Or you can zoom by changing font size[/quote]

Since this would only work on controls with text on them, I'm not sure it's a good idea for increasing accessibility for partially sight-disabled. You'd need to take care of all other controls with individual hacks (tool-buttons, controls with custom paint event, labels that show images, etc.).

[qxoz]

[quote author="Dolphin" date="1338212821"] (Currently just had a listWidget and a couple of buttons, purpose-built very simple UI).[/quote]

and I proposed this.

[DerManu]

bq. Currently.

This may change in the future. And apart from that, he was asking for elegant solutions. Elegant solutions partly are elegant because they catch corner cases implicitly.

[Dolphin]

Morning people, hope you had a good looooooooong weekend.

Have not managed to get this working yet but been side tracked (and on holiday) - thanks for your thoughts. I will try them out.

I'm a girl by the way ;-)

[qxoz]

[quote author="Dolphin" date="1339057298"]
I'm a girl by the way ;-)[/quote]
I'm a boy, just in case :)

[Dolphin]

DerManu - sorry to be a pain but do you have a simple example? I have been through about 10 different examples and not got anything working (putting everything in the a QGraphicsView and scaling the view).

[Dolphin]

Never mind - I was being dim, my view was going out of scope.