QProgressDialog

[samirg]

Dear Folks,

I could make QProgessBar dockable into QMainApplication, however, I could not succeed
in making QProgessDialog dockable into main application. I wonder if QProgresDialog
can be made dockable, if so, an example would or pointer to it, will be very helpfull.

regards,

[aMan]

I'm not sure, if i have understood you correctly. Are you using a QMainWindow and you want to add a QProgressBar dockable in it?

In designer just make a new QDockWidget, insert a progress bar and set the property "dockable" to true in the property window. Afaik QDockWidget only works in QMainWindow properly.

[jpn]

QDialog is a special widget:

Note that QDialog (an any other widget that has type Qt::Dialog) uses the parent widget slightly differently from other classes in Qt. A dialog is always a top-level widget, but if it has a parent, its default location is centered on top of the parent's top-level widget (if it is not top-level itself). It will also share the parent's taskbar entry.

So you would have to switch its window type to something else than Qt::Dialog, then you can embed it into a QDockWidget. However, wouldn't QProgressBar be sufficient for you?

[samirg]

Thanks for all tips.

I want to be able to cancel the QProgressBar any time I want to, however, QProgressBar
does not seem to support 'cancel' operation. So, I came accross QProgressDialog which
supports "Cancel" operation. However, I could not make QProgressDialog dockable
into QMainWindow even if I change window type of QProgressDialog to something else.

I will try again.

regards,

[jpn]

Here's a small example:

// main.cpp
#include <QtGui>
 
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	QApplication app(argc, argv);
	QMainWindow window;
 
	QLabel* label = new QLabel("Progressing...", &window);
	window.setCentralWidget(label);
 
	QDockWidget* dock = new QDockWidget(&window);
	QProgressDialog* progress = new QProgressDialog(dock);
	progress->setWindowFlags(Qt::Widget); // required to make the dialog a child widget
	progress->setRange(0, 0); // to make progress go around forever
	dock->setWidget(progress);
	window.addDockWidget(Qt::BottomDockWidgetArea, dock);
 
	QObject::connect(progress, SIGNAL(canceled()), label, SLOT(clear()));
 
	window.show();
	return app.exec();
}

// main.cpp
#include <QtGui>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	QApplication app(argc, argv);
	QMainWindow window;
	
	QLabel* label = new QLabel("Progressing...", &window);
	window.setCentralWidget(label);

	QDockWidget* dock = new QDockWidget(&window);
	QProgressDialog* progress = new QProgressDialog(dock);
	progress->setWindowFlags(Qt::Widget); // required to make the dialog a child widget
	progress->setRange(0, 0); // to make progress go around forever
	dock->setWidget(progress);
	window.addDockWidget(Qt::BottomDockWidgetArea, dock);

	QObject::connect(progress, SIGNAL(canceled()), label, SLOT(clear()));
	
	window.show();
	return app.exec();
}

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[samirg]

Thank you, it was very helpfull, after ProgressDialog is made dockable into main window,
focus issue, I raised in another thread, is also, resolved.