DockWidget and Dock area NO central Widget..

vicky12

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How can I achieve this? i want to use dock widget and area. so that my widget is movable and by area doesn't resize.

ambershark

@vicky12 I would just force the size of your dock widgets to always cover the area where the central widget would be. So after a resize() event just resize your dock widgets to fill the area.

This is a weird and non-standard way to do a gui though, not quite sure why you would want this.

You could also not use a QMainWindow and just make a QWidget with the 3 movable widgets inside it be the "main window". Then there is no central widget. If you wanted the other features of mainwindow, you can also make custom movable widgets that can be dragged and dropped to relocate inside a single QWidget that would be your central widget.

SGaist

Hi,

One thing is not clear from your design: are you going to undock these widgets ? If not, then QSplitter seems to be a better fit.

vicky12

@SGaist yes i will be undocking it.

VRonin

I looked at a similar thing for a while actually, Implementing it mixing QMdiArea and QDockArea is a mess. There are commercial products for it but couldn't find a viable solution