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Hi, I'm working on an application which contains an editable QComboBox. I observe the following behavior when I enter some text in the edit field and press the dropdown arrow in the combobox:

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My edit line ends up hidden behind the item "[email protected]". I would like to have the combobox list popup below the edit field, like in the below screen:

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The first screen above is taken on Ubuntu with Qt4.5 while the second screen is from Suse 11 with Qt 4.4. I'm not aware of any differences regarding change of behavior of QComboBox popups between Qt 4.4 and Qt 4.5. Regardless, I would like the list to behave the same in both distributions.

This is a standard QComboBox with the editable property set to on - there are no stylesheets or special formatting applied to it.

How can I make the list popup below the editable field, like in the second screen?

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This looks like a style issue, as the screenshots are taken with different styles. Perhaps you can start investigating by changing style on the failing desktop.

e8johan
I tried both desktops with Clearlooks theme on and the behavior is the same. Even if the style would be the cause, how could I force the combobox to behave the same regardless of desktop style?
Hypherion
It was indeed the style (not the theme). Turns out this is configured with qtconfig (I didn't even have this package installed on Ubuntu). I now set my Qt app to use cleanlooks style using setStyle("cleanlooks") so it will look the same on all distributions.
Hypherion