QScrollArea in a single direction, my approach feels too hacky

[Jay Goodman]

I feel like I am missing the obvious here.  I set up a QScrollArea, but I wanted the widget to only extend in a single direction.  I had this widget inside a splitter, so my solution was to overload the ResizeEvent of the window, and connect the splitter moved event to a method that would set the width of the Widget in the scroll area.  This works, but it just seems hacky?  Has anyone dabbled in this area and gone with a different approach?

thanks

[Justin Israel]

You want the scroll widget to only grow in width, or its content widget? Either way, did you try just setting a size policy on it with the vertical set to fixed? Or simply setting a fixed height value?

Can you show a code sample if I am off track?

On Nov 8, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Jay Goodman <jaycg...@gmail.com> wrote:

I feel like I am missing the obvious here.  I set up a QScrollArea, but I wanted the widget to only extend in a single direction.  I had this widget inside a splitter, so my solution was to overload the ResizeEvent of the window, and connect the splitter moved event to a method that would set the width of the Widget in the scroll area.  This works, but it just seems hacky?  Has anyone dabbled in this area and gone with a different approach?

thanks

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[Jay Goodman]

It's content should only grow in one direction.  I tried the size policy, but it didn't have an affect.  Setting widgetResizable to True will resize the widget to match the ScrollArea, and then I could set the minimum width to be a larger number--that would work as well, but then you are stuck with a large size even if you widget should be empty--still it is viable solution.  Maybe the SizePolicy is having issues because of the QSplitter?

thanks for the thoughts.