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    Lightbulb (not a question) : how to make a main window resize to its contents

    I spent quite a lot of time finding an answer to this question, so I decided to share the findings.
    I was struck by the blinding flash of the obvious reading this thread, but it seems Google has not deemed it as interresting as I do.
    Besides, instead of providing a lenghty example, I decided to narrow it down to the two essential lines of code.
    So here it goes:


    Sometimes you may want your main window to resize to its current (dynamic) contents.
    In my case I wanted my silly brickout game to resize according to its level layout :
    BAscreen1.pngBAscreen2.png

    The trick is simply to apply a fixed-size layout to the main window.

    Qt Code:
    1. MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent)
    2. : QMainWindow(parent)
    3. , ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
    4. {
    5. // trick to get the main window to resize to its contents
    6. layout()->setSizeConstraint(QLayout::SetFixedSize);
    7.  
    8. // rest of constructor code...
    9. }
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    In this example I use a MainWindow straight from QT designer, but the same can be done with any hand-coded class.

    Hope some people will find that useful...
    Last edited by kuroi_neko; 8th June 2012 at 15:22.

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