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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Timothy:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>In the absence of source code, let’s say your splitter is called “splitter”. To adjust the size of the handle--which seems to be part of your issue--, use the handleWidth property. Calling splitter.setHandleWidth() with an integer argument measured in pixels will let you adjust this. You can toy with this value and how it appears in QtDesigner.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>As for a “visible” handle, you have two choices: The handle itself created by a virtual method in QSplitter called createHandle(), returning a QSplitterHandle. QSplitterHandle follows the current style (see QStyle) in how it appears. Create a form with a QSplitter in it using QtDesigner, then preview it with the Cleanlooks style (Form->Preview->Cleanlooks). Cleanlooks has a visible gripper—albeit an ugly one—, which I suspect is something you’re looking for. Unfortunately, most styles don’t paint anything but a background for the splitter itself. Drawing a gripper will require subclassing QSplitter, reimplementing createHandle() to return a subclassed QSplitterHandle with a reimplemented paintEvent(). Frustrating, I know, but QStyle follows the style of platforms. If you’re on Windows, those are calls to native Windows APIs, and I assume the same goes for Gnome (QGtkStyle) or MacOS (QMacStyle).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>The other aspect to consider about a default QSplitter/QSplitterHandle combination is that QSplitter inherits QFrame and is typically used with widgets than inherit QFrame as well (text editors, tree/list widgets, and so forth). Using setContentsMargins() on the child widgets will put some padding around the frame, making the handle a bit more obvious.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Try working this code into a subclassed QDialog:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>---------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>#I follow the whole from “PyQt4.QtGui import *” instead of “from PyQt4 import QtGui” methodology,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>#so assume I did that already and created a subclass of QDialog, and that this is a setupUi() method I’m demonstrating<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>#<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>#Also, I use keyword arguments quite a bit for brevity and clean code. Don’t let this distract you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>#assume we’re adding other stuff, like a close button to this layout later<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>layout = QVBoxLayout(parent=self,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> objectName=’layout’)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>splitter = QSplitter(parent=self,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> objectName='splitter', <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> frameShape=QFrame.StyledPanel, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> frameShadow=QFrame.Plain)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>#for demonstration purposes, we’ll make the size fixed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>splitter.setFixedSize(QSize(300, 100))<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>layout.addWidget(splitter)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>#populate the splitter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>widget1 = QFrame(parent=splitter, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> objectName='widget1', <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> frameShape=QFrame.StyledPanel, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> frameShadow=QFrame.Sunken)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>widget2 = QFrame(parent=splitter, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> objectName='widget2', <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> frameShape=QFrame.StyledPanel, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> frameShadow=QFrame.Sunken)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>#here’s the interesting part:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>widget1.setContentsMargins(2, 2, 2, 2)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>widget2.setContentsMargins(2, 2, 2, 2)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>splitter.addWidget(widget1)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>splitter.addWidget(widget2)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>---------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>I’m actually working right now on how best to subtly hint that a splitter is present without making it distracting (look at a piece of software called XnView as an example of distracting).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Hope this helps,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Jonathan Harper<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>