[PyQt] Dialog Window's Position Offset

[Brent Villalobos]

I'm wondering if anyone has an opinion on this?  Is this a bug in Qt or 
am I not understanding something fundamental?
-Brent

Brent Villalobos wrote:
> I'm confused about the position of dialogs that do not have parents.  
> I wrote a small PyQt application that is a push button that launches a 
> non-modal, non-parented QDialog.  When you show the dialog and then 
> close it without explicitly moving it, then it reports the wrong 
> position.  However, the position gets reported just fine on close if I 
> move the dialog box.
>
> If you run my test code (shown below), you get this output when you 
> push the "Show Dialog" button and then close the dialog right away 
> (your actual values may differ):
> Dialog Moved:  PyQt4.QtCore.QPoint(2075, 336)
> Dialog Moved:  PyQt4.QtCore.QPoint(1600, 336)
> Dialog Closed:  PyQt4.QtCore.QPoint(1595, 312)
>
> The position on close is always offset by (-5, -24).  Why?  Will those 
> offset values always be the same or is there a way I can query for 
> those offset values?
>
> #### Code ####
> import sys
> from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
>
> myDialog = None
>
> class MyDialog(QtGui.QDialog):
>    def __init__(self, parent=None):
>        super(MyDialog, self).__init__(parent)
>        self.setModal(False)
>
>    def moveEvent(self, e):
>        print "Dialog Moved: ", self.pos()
>
>    def closeEvent(self, e):
>        print "Dialog Closed: ", self.pos()
>
> def showDialog():
>    global myDialog
>    myDialog = MyDialog()
>    myDialog.show()
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
>    button = QtGui.QPushButton("Show Dialog")
>    QtCore.QObject.connect(button, QtCore.SIGNAL("clicked()"), showDialog)
>    button.show()
>    sys.exit(app.exec_())
>
>
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