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PyQT: Rotate a QLabel so that it's positioned diagonally instead of horizontally

Hi folks, I'm working on a touch screen app where gui space is very tight. I'd like to rotate a QLabel a bit so that it's either vertical, or offset at a diagonal a bit. Any suggestions? I couldn't find anything relevant on the QLabel interface. Thanks so much! ...

Qt: Same Widget Inside Two Different Layouts

Hi What I'm trying to achieve is that a widget could exist in two different layouts, in this case in QHBoxLayout and in QVBoxLayout. I'm implementing a system which dynamically switches between the two layouts when a device's screen orientation changes. Currently I'm creating, let's say a complex composite widget called MyWidget and ad...

QTableView - samples

Hi, How to use QTableView in Nokia QT SDK(for mobiles). I referred some of documents but still I am not clearing about the QTableView. Please any one suggest the how to use the QTableView. I want to show the QTableView with three columns. Thanks is advance. ...

Qt stylesheet used in Qt Creator, AutoCAD, ...

Is there a stylesheet available for use in Qt applications (through Qt Creator) that makes your GUI use the stylesheet you see in Qt Creator itself, as well as in AutoCAD and some other applications? What is the name of that stylesheet or where can I get it? It looks much like the Vista stylesheet though... And whenever you set a custo...

Redistribution of LGPL licensed SDK (such as Qt 4.6.x)

Hello everyone, I was wondering if under the LGPL(v2.1) one could re-distribute a complete pre-compiled SDK that is linked to dynamically in my own project? Background: Qt is licensed under LGPL and many applications I develop are linking with it. More recently we created our own SDK that uses Qt. Now, other people may extend and write...

QtableView - how to increment the table size

Hi, I am using the following code for display the table. But I want to increase the table size. QStandardItemModel *model=new QStandardItemModel(); for (int row = 0; row < 40; ++row) { for (int column = 0; column < 3; ++column) { QStandardItem *item = new QStandardItem(QString("hi")); model-...

Qt Designer; difficulty placing widgets in the right parent

Using the Qt Designer I've made a couple of QFrames in each other, each having a horizontal layout. Their stylesheet predicates that they should have no margin nor a padding. This means that in the Qt Designers view as well as in the final result, no space is seen between the QFrames. Using drag-and-drop I can place widgets into the win...

QWidget::height() of a just-added widget into a layout

How do I get the final height of a widget that was just added to a layout, but because of this, it has not resized to its final size? Basically I need to do this: myGridLayout->addWidget ( somewidget, 0, 0, 1, 1 ); QPushButton *b = new QPushButton(somewidget); b->setGeometry( somewidget->width() - 50, somewidget->heigh...

qws parameter for Qt-embedded is not working

Hi, I created a basic Qt application for Qt-embedded but when I executed that application in my target platform using the -qws parameter then an error message always appear, please see below, #./test_app -qws QWSSocket::connectToLocalFile could not connect:: Connection refused QWSSocket::connectToLocalFile could not connect:: Connectio...

Implement a userEdited signal to QDateTimeEdit?

QLineEdit has a textEdited signal which is emitted whenever the text is changed by user interaction, but not when the text is changed programatically. However, QDateTimeEdit has only a general dateTimeChanged signal that does not distinguish between these two types of changes. Since my app depends on knowing if the field was edited by th...

portable threading APIs

Hi all, I know of three portable threading C++ APIs : Qt boost::thread GNU Pth Apart from possible licensing issues involved, how do these compare in: actual portability (mostly interested in Linux and Windows) capabilities programming ease-of-use support/development activity of the library And: are there more like these that a...

Trap click event on dock icon using Qt on Mac

Hello all, I am trying to get dock click event on dock icon on Mac OS X. I am using Qt-Cocoa. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks, Rahul ...

How can I draw a selection rectangle on the screen with Qt?

Hello, How can I draw a selection rectangle on my screen with Qt in X11? I want to be able to drag a rectangle on my screen (outside of the application) and then save the whole rectangle. Thanks in advance. ...

Efficiently updating a QTableView at high speed

I'm using a QTableView with a subclass of QItemDelegate to control the look and feel of the tableview's cells. Each cell displays the name and status of a of an externally connected device, and as many as 100 devices may be connected at once. The name and type of each device is essentially static, updating very rarely (perhaps once an ...

What's is the Better option for multi-platform environment

Hi In my company we want to make a desktop software, but we want to create the better experience in the most common platforms (Windows(XP/VISTA/7), Linux and MacOs (And iOS) and several smartphones (android, webOS, windows mobile) We have studied 3 options 1.- .Net, 2.- Java, 3.- C++ with Qt We discarded .Net because we don't like the...

Clickable menu item with submenu in Qt

Hello, I am writing in Qt 4.6. I am wondering if it's possible to achieve such a menu item, that it's possible to be triggered, but also has a submenu. Clicking it triggers associated action, hovering it causes submenu to appear. ...

Is it possible to open QWidget parented to eclipse mdi area

Is it possible to open QWidget parented to eclipse mdi area (inside of eclipse environment) ...

How to make state-based model change in QML

Hi, I'm trying to make a QML-based dictionary application. It fetches the word definition via an XML RESTful API and displays them in a ListView. I have it working in this rudimentary mode. But now I'm trying to implement two states for the ListView: standard view with the definitions and a "did you mean" type suggestions list for when t...

Why isn't QString::localeAwareCompare() working correctly

A Finnish customer tells me that the correct (locale aware) sorting for Finnish is: a-z, å, ä, ö. But QString::localeAwareCompare() returns it as: a, ä, å, b-o, ö, p-z in Qt 4.4.2 on Windows Vista. #include <qapplication.h> #include <qlocale.h> #include <iostream> #include <tchar.h> int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) { QLocale::se...

qt qmake extra compilers with dependencies among generated files

Can qmake handle dependencies of generated source files? We have a prf file like this: idl_h.name = Generate .H file for ${QMAKE_FILE_BASE}.idl idl_h.input = IDLS # variable containing our input files idl_h.variable_out = HEADERS idl_h.commands = <command that takes .idl and genrates .h> idl_h.output = $$IDL_GEN_DIR/${QMAKE_FILE_BASE}...