1) I cannot dock two Docking Widgets next to each other, ie <dock1><dock2><mainWidget>...
This is possible. Philippe On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:08:59 +0200 felix felix <felixo...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello everyone, > > I am in the process of porting an exiting program from MFC to Qt for my > company. > The one requirement is: the GUI of the new port should be as similar as > possible to the old one, as to reduce time and cost of introducing the new > version. > > Having worked with Qt before, i knew this a was a reasonable request. So for > a couple of days i walked around the building bragging about how Qt supports > everything one could wish for, and how awesome it is > in general. > A mistake, as it turns out. > > The program i am porting makes heavy use of "Docking widgets". Now, prior to > bragging about it, i had checked Qt supported it, too. > It does, of course, but apparently with certain limitations. > > 1) I cannot dock two Docking Widgets next to each other, ie > <dock1><dock2><mainWidget>... > > 2) there are no docking hints. (the arrows you get when you, e.g., drag a > pane in Visual Studio) > > 3) there appears to be a limit on the width of docking widgets, if a widget`s > minimum size is bigger than this limit, it cant be docked at all. > > 4) i cant change the arrangement of tabs in a multi-dockwidget tab bar > easily, ie. without un- and re-docking the widget. > > 5) i cannot control the appearance of the tabbar created when multiple > docking widgets are joined together, specifically,i cannot find how to place > a close button on each tab. > > > > Clearly, this is a bit of a bummer when i need the interfaces to be as > similar as possible. > The up-side: some dude from some other company has heard my desperate cries, > and claims they are running a private application written in Qt that does all > these things! > He wont send me a copy of the app, though, but i can attach a > screenshot...which indeed looks promising. > > Is there any way i can do the above thing with Qt? > How did the developers of that other app do it? > Are they using an external library? If so, which one? > > > The Qt documentation, several forums and other programmers have stood me up > on this one...any help would be greatly appreciated. :)
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