Dock widget resizing issue

[Joel Bodenmann]

I have a couple of QDockWidgets in my QMainWindow. Each dock widget contains a different custom QWidget and has been added to the main window using QMainWindow::addDockWidget().

The problem I am facing is that one of the docks can't be resized at all unless it is first undocked (made floating and then re-docked again). As soon as the dock widget is re-docked everything works as expected and the size of the dock can be changed however I need it.
Does anyone have an idea what causes that behavior? The widget in the dock widget has the size policy set to expanding, not to fixed.
Note: I can re-insert the floating dock exactly at the same place as it was before without touching the other docks and it will work. It really just boils down to un-docking and re-docking it to make it become resizable.

[SGaist]

Hi,

Can you show how you setup that dock and its widget ?

[Joel Bodenmann]

@SGaist Sure, here you go:
I removed any non-contributing code such as the signal-slot connections.

MainWindow::MainWindow()
{
    // Dock options
    setDockOptions(AnimatedDocks | AllowNestedDocks | AllowTabbedDocks | GroupedDragging);

    // Terminal dock
    _terminal = new Terminal;
    QDockWidget* terminalDockWidget = new QDockWidget("Terminal", this);
    terminalDockWidget->setObjectName("Terminal Dock");
    terminalDockWidget->setWidget(_terminal);
    addDockWidget(Qt::BottomDockWidgetArea, terminalDockWidget);

    // Tasks list
    _tasksTreeView = new TasksView;
    _tasksTreeView->setModel(Preferences::instance().tasksManager());
    _tasksTreeView->setEnabled(false);
    QDockWidget* tasksDockWidget = new QDockWidget("Tasks", this);
    tasksDockWidget->setObjectName("Tasks Dock");
    tasksDockWidget->setWidget(_tasksTreeView);
    addDockWidget(Qt::BottomDockWidgetArea, tasksDockWidget);

    // Navigation dock
    _navigationTreeView = new WorkspaceNavigation;
    _navigationTreeView->setDragDropMode(QAbstractItemView::DragOnly);
    _navigationTreeView->setDragEnabled(true);
    QDockWidget* navigationDockWidget = new QDockWidget("Navigation", this);
    navigationDockWidget->setObjectName("Navigation Dock");
    navigationDockWidget->setWidget(_navigationTreeView);
    setCorner(Qt::TopLeftCorner, Qt::LeftDockWidgetArea);
    setCorner(Qt::BottomLeftCorner, Qt::LeftDockWidgetArea);
    addDockWidget(Qt::LeftDockWidgetArea, navigationDockWidget);
 }

void MainWindow::createDock(const QStringList& filePaths, const QString& viewerName)
{
    QDockWidget* firstDock = nullptr;
    for (const QString& filePath : filePaths) {
        // Get the appropriate viewer
        Viewer* viewer = ...

        // Create a new dock
        QDockWidget* dock = new QDockWidget(viewer->toolWidgetName(), this);
        dock->setWidget(viewer->toolWidget());
        dock->setObjectName("Dock " + viewer->toolWidgetName());
        addDockWidget(Qt::RightDockWidgetArea, dock, Qt::Horizontal);

        // Tab them together
        if (firstDock) {
            tabifyDockWidget(firstDock, dock);
        } else {
            firstDock = dock;
        }
    }
}

It is the dock that I add in MainWindow::createDock() that shows the issue explained in my first post.
It doesn't matter whether it creates just one dock (if the passed string list contains just one item) or if it creates multiple ones and tabs them together. In both cases I have to un-dock and re-dock the newly created dock before I can resize it using the mouse/splitters.

Note: viewer->toolWidget() returns a regular QWidget that contains a layout with other QWidgets as layout items. Nothing special.

[SGaist]

The code looks good.

One thing I would try is to remove the dock options and enable them one by one.

[Joel Bodenmann]

I tried what you proposed but sadly without any luck. No matter which dock options I use - I can even leave them to the default ones - the issue remains: I can't resize the dock before I re-dock it.

Any other ideas or suggestions?

[SGaist]

Which version of Qt are you using ? On which platform ?

[Joel Bodenmann]

Qt 5.6.0 on Windows 64-Bit using MinGW 4.9.2 32-Bit