Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Parameter Boxes (was Re: [Rosegarden-bugs] SF.net SVN: rosegarden: [7318] trunk/rosegarden/gui)

[Martin S. <mc...@as...>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> Yes. It has extra functionality, though (moveTab and a hoverCloseButton). A
> similar class, with extra fashion look is QToolBox. See the attached
> proposals: TPB-proposal2.jpg and TPB-proposal3.jpg; this widget creates each
> tabbed area as a QScrollView, with scroll bars for them when it is necessary.
> See below.

Thanks. That's useful. I had been wondering if there might be some way
to stack tabs vertically like this, but I hadn't actually gone
looking. The vertically stacked tabs would nicely solve the problem of
the horizontal line of tabs of a KTabBar becoming too wide, once more
than two parameter boxes were added to it.

> Yes, the problem is that QFrame (and QGroupBox) can't be narrower than a
> minimum width and height. The solution is to add each parameter box inside a
> QScrollView, and the latter inside a QSplitter. You can see the results in
> the attached picture: TPB-proposal4.jpg; you are right about the KDocWidget:
> it already provides a right margin that can be used to stretch the panel
> horizontally. The QScrollView may have an area smaller than the child
> widgets, in this case it shows scroll bars if you want. I don't like too much
> the scroll bars (hint: QScrollView::AlwaysOff).

Agreed, although the scroll bars don't look quite as bad as I would
have guessed, and presumably they disapear when the area is widened
sufficiently to display the whole of the frame. I could probably make
them optional, at the risk of overwhelming the user with too many
options.

Martin