New to QSplitter

[ntp]

I am running into the same problem. It has to do with layouts in the tabs.

I have a tab widget in one part of my splitter. As long as I have a layout in the tabs, I cannot make the splitter shrink that side. I need the layouts because I want the tab to look nice but is there any way to tell it that it can shrink that side?

I have a QMdiArea on the other side and I am able to shrink that side.

Thanks.

[QTmplayer]

Hi
Maybe some of the widgets' minimum size(hint) is too great, so that the layout prevents the splitter from further shrinking them.
Hope this helps.

[ntp]

I checked and I have no minimum sizes on any of the widgets and I set all the policies to preferred. (The only things I left as expanding were the spacers.)

I even created a minimumSizeHint() method to return (0,0) for each of the tabs but that didn't make a difference.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[jpn]

Did you create the form in designer? Sometimes spacers get relatively large size hint values while working with designer. I suggest you to go through spacers and check their size hints.

[ntp]

Somewhere along the way my tabWidget->setMinimumWidth(20); got deleted. Putting that back in fixed it. I have set my layouts to be minimum, minimumExpanding, and a few preferred. I also have removed all minimumWidths. I think the combination of all three solved the problem.