Question

I am adding a widget to a parent widget without the use of a layout (because I’m using some animations that conflict with what the layout try to do).

I am trying to understand what I need to do to align the child widget to it’s parent manually (centre it horizontally and vertically even when the parent widget is resized).

I’ve tried calculating the position myself and using QWidget.move() and QWidget.setGeometry(), but neither worked properly as I seem to be unable to get the correct parent width and height.

Here is a simplified example of what I’m trying to achieve:

import sys
from PySide.QtGui import *
from PySide.QtCore import *

class Test( QWidget ):

    def __init__( self, parent=None ):
          super( Test, self ).__init__( parent )

    def sizeHint( self ):
        return QSize( 500, 500 )

    def addPage( self, widget ):
        widget.setParent( self )
        # THIS SEEMS UNPREDICTABLE:
        widget.move( self.sizeHint().width()/2, self.sizeHint().height()/2 ) 

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication( sys.argv )

    mainW = Test()
    childW = QPushButton( 'centre me please' )
    mainW.addPage( childW )
    mainW.show()

    sys.exit( app.exec_() )

Answer 1

You can use QWidget.setGeometry to place your child widget at the centre. If you want it to stay that way no matter what happens to your main widget, then you need to catch events corresponding to the changes you expect.

The following should work:

#!/usr/bin/env python


from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
import sys

class Application(QtGui.QApplication):

    def __init__(self):
        QtGui.QApplication.__init__(self, sys.argv)

        self.main = MyWidget()
        self.main.show()


class MyWidget(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QtGui.QLabel.__init__(self, parent)

        self.setStyleSheet("QWidget { background-color : white}")
        self.setGeometry(0, 0, 200, 200)

        self.sub_widget = QtGui.QWidget(self)
        self.sub_widget.setStyleSheet("QWidget { background-color : black}")
        self.sub_widget.setGeometry((self.width()-100)/2, (self.height()-100)/2 , 100, 100)

    def resizeEvent(self, event):

        self.sub_widget.setGeometry((self.width()-100)/2, (self.height()-100)/2 , 100, 100)