Keeping the left side of a splitter from resizing

[MrGarbage]

Awesome - that does it thank you.

I must say I don't exactly understand why that works.

I thought that the stretch factors were for establishing ratios between layout
objects, ie this object should get twice as much space as this one.. hence a
stretch factor of 2 and 1.

Any idea where in the QT documentation I would have been able to
derive this info?

Thanks

Mark

[jacek]

I thought that the stretch factors were for establishing ratios between layout
objects, ie this object should get twice as much space as this one.. hence a
stretch factor of 2 and 1.

Yes, but that's when you have two or more objects with "expanding" policy.

If all widgets have "preferred" policy, then the layout asks each of them how much space it needs and tries to scale them evenly to make them occupy the whole available space. But if there's at least one expanding widget, then all widgets with "preferred" policy will occupy the minimal amount of space they need and the rest of the available space will be divided between expanding widgets according to their stretch factors (and minimal required size).

Although setting the "expanding" policy isn't enough, because you also have to set the stretch factor to a non-zero value. Zero stretch factor means that the widget doesn't want its share.

Any idea where in the QT documentation I would have been able to derive this info?

I don't remember seeing single comprehensive document about layouts and size policies in Qt docs. You might try QSizePolicy, Layout Classes and Pixel-Perfect Mac + Plastique.