Dialog Sizing Options

[marshmn]

Hi,

In an app I'm creating I have a dialog that pops up. I'd like to have the dialog be maximised to fill the whole screen, but I can't see how I go about doing that?

I've played around with the different "sizePolicy" settings, but none of these seem to make it fill to fit the screen. I thought that perhaps setting the policy to "Expanding/Expanding" would do the trick, but it seems not.

I'm launching the dialog by doing:

CODE

UploadDialog dialog(this);
dialog.exec();

Can anyone give me an idea how I should be doing this?

Thanks,
Matt

[vanstrien]

I think I know what you are asking.

In the past when I have needed to do what you want I've used:

CODE

showMaximized();

See: http://doc.trolltech.com/qtopia1.7/html/qwidget.html#b6e000

Does that help?

[melee]

Hi,

Alternately in the dialog constructor, get the parent widgets size and resize accordingly
Allows you to make it slightly smaller than full screen (or any size you want.)

eg

DefDlg::DefDlg( QWidget* parent, const char* name, bool modal, WFlags fl )
: QDialog( parent, name, modal, fl )
{
if ( !name )
setName( "DefDlg" );
resize(parent->width() - 50, parent->height() - 50 );
// more stuff
}

regards

Melee