QGoodCentralWidget vs QGoodWindow?

[PaddleStroke]

I'm not sure to understand what is the purpose of QGoodCentralWidget, and when to use it.
It would be good to have a bit more doc to explain it.

[antonypro]

@PaddleStroke:

QGoodCentralWidget is a optional QWidget to be used with QGoodWindow to make easier to implement a title bar, window border color and many things that helps to easily implement a frame less window.

I must agree with you that now it lacks some documentation of it's purpose, i'm planning to add that in the future.

Thanks!

[PaddleStroke]

Hmm, I'm still a bit confused because QMainWindow central widget is like so :

so it is inside the toolbars area, and the dock areas are also surrounding it. QGoodCentralWidget seems to be the widget that you define as the QMainWindow central widget, so I wonder how it is doing the title bar, window border color etc which one would expect to be defined in QGoodWindow?

[antonypro]

@PaddleStroke:

When using QGoodWindow you must use only the central widget, use of status bar, toolbars and dock widgets gives to you weird results. However you can still using widgets, and it includes use QMainWindow as QWidget child, for example, of QGoodCentralWidget, in this case you have QGoodCentralWidget coordinating and sometimes controlling QGoodWIndow, and you can use Tool Bar, Menu Bar and Status Bar in this QMainWindow widget.

In order to see exactly what is QGoodWindow and QGoodCentralWidget you could see the docs and the Examples.

Thanks!

[PaddleStroke]

So do I understand correctly :
If we want to use toolbar/statusbar/dock area... then we need to add a child QMainWindow to the QGoodCentralWidget ? So the structure would actually look like this ?

The QGoodWindow has only the QGoodCentralWidget (no menubar/statusbar/etc).
The QGoodCentralWidget has a vertical layout with the custom title bar. Then a QMainWindow.
The child mainWindow can have toolbar, dock area etc.

Is that right?

[antonypro]

@PaddleStroke: Yes!

I want just to add a note for menu bar:

If you want your child main window menu bar in the title bar, you have to add it manually to QGoodCentralWidget as left, center or right widget, or fuse the central widget and the title bar, and add a place holder widget or a title bar mask to make the menu clickable.

BTW, you can fuse central widget with title bar to make the central widget "invades" the title bar if you like, and selectively hide title bar icon, title bar title and title bar caption button, and replace it with yours respective implementations.

See the API of QGoodCentralWidget: setUnifiedTitleBarAndCentralWidget.