Trigering a repaint event

musimbate

Hi all,I am trying to get a window to be repainted after some set up and I find it weird that it is not being repainted after calling update() .I have even called repaint() on the window and nothing happened.Has anybody run into such a problem before ?If yes I would really appreciate it if you shared.

Thanks.

sierdzio

Are updates enabled (QWidget::setUpdatesEnabled)? Or are we talking about QtQuick? Then you need to set the item dirty (QQuickItem::ItemHasContents) before it will update. See "the doc":http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/5.0/qtquick/qquickitem.html#updatePaintNode.

musimbate

I checked that the updates are enabled and they are.I have tried every idea I could come up with and no luck so far.Here is what I want to achieve.I have a bunch of control buttons on my main window and I want to use them to control the position of the palettes(LEFT/RIGHT).

Here is my slot that responds to a button push:
@void UBBoardPaletteManager::leftRightButtonClicked()
{

UBApplication::boardController->paletteManager()->leftPalette()->setOrientation(eUBDockOrientation_Right);
UBApplication::boardController->paletteManager()->leftPalette()->repaint();
UBApplication::mainWindow->repaint();
UBApplication::app()->processEvents(QEventLoop::AllEvents);
}@

and in the constructor of the palette I made sure that updates are enabled by the following code:

@UBLeftPalette::UBLeftPalette(QWidget *parent, const char *name):
UBDockPalette(eUBDockPaletteType_LEFT, parent)
{
............

    setUpdatesEnabled(true);

}@

With this setup it is my belief that after the button is pushed ,the palette(widget) should automatically be redrawn and positioned where i want it to be.

Is something wrong with my idea flow?Thanks for your time.