[SOLVED] textEdit: how to remove the margins of mainwindow

kalster

when putting the textEdit widget inside of a dock widget and maximizing the textEdit widget, it does not maximize to the border of the dock widget. Instead, there is about a 20 pixel gap in between the maximized textEdit widget and the dock widget. How, through style sheets probably, can i get the edges of the maximized textEdit widget to be at the border of the docked widget? in the dock method, I have tried to setContentsMargins() to 0 but that have no effect.

sigrid

Does calling

@setWidget(yourTextEdit)@

give you what you need? Then the QTextEdit should fill the dockwidget area. See the documentation on "setWidget":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qdockwidget.html#setWidget

kalster

i am getting the error: 'setWidget' was not declared in this scope

mlong

You need to use
@
yourdockwidget->setWidget(...);
@

kalster

i got it set correctly now. thank you.

I have push buttons in the dock widget and now they are gone. how can i get them back while using the setWidget?

Eddy

Try setlayout and add all your widgets to that layout...

kalster

i found that the following code also works great. does anyone know how to set the margins for the textEdit that is maximized in the mainwindow and without any dock widget? I would like to get the textEdit closer to the edge of the screen.

@ui->dockWidgetBottomLeft->setContentsMargins(-10,-10,-10,-10);@

why is the following code not working. its should remove the margins around the textEdit when not inside of a dock widget. the dock widgets is surrounding the mainwindow widget.

@this->layout()->setMargin( 0 );
this->layout()->setContentsMargins(-10,-10,-10,-10);@

kalster

i solved it with the following code.
@QMainWindow::centralWidget()->layout()->setContentsMargins(0,0,0,0);@