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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello everybody, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m trying to use QSettings to save and restore the window configuration, and the size and position of its docking widgets to be more precise, in my application.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My application is a normal QMainWindow (let’s call this ‘outer’), which has a QDockWidget, and a normal QWidget as its centralWidget.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That centralWidget has a layout, and another QMainWindow as it’s only widget (let’s call this one ‘inner’). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That ‘inner’ QMainWindow also has a dock widget.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I use QSettings to save and restore the state of the application (so : bother outer as inner QMainWindow), it does it job perfectly for the ‘outer’ window : It restores both the location and the size of its docking widget.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But the docking widget of the ‘inner’ window is not restored correctly : QSettings only recovers its location (Left/Bottom/…) but discards the stored size: It seems to use the sizeHint rather than the user-preferred size.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Am I doing something wrong with the QSettings usage?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I know the ‘QMainWindow in QMainWindow’ is rather funky, but I’d really like the dock-concept in the inner central widget.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And also : the inner QMainWindow may one day live on it’s own, in stead of being a widget in another window…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s some demo-code to show my problem: <a href="http://pastebin.com/07NJJvDm">http://pastebin.com/07NJJvDm</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My configuration : Windows Vista with Python 2.7, Qt 4.7.0 and PyQt 4.8.1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks in advance, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.0pt'><b><span style='color:#9D0B18'>Bram</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>