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Why does QPushButton not respect absolute pixel size?

I'm working on an application that's running on an embedded device with a touch LCD screen. For development setup, I have setup a Xephyr window with the matchbox WM at the same resolution (1280x800).

I have deloped a customer dropdown menu that will expand down wards and show select buttons, on my dev system this looks 9as designed) something like this: enter image description here

Where on the end device, the button fills the whole window as can be seen here:

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The functionality seems there but even though fix pixel sizes are used for the button size, it seems to take up the space of the whole window. They "drop-down" buttons are created from a list like:

btn_size = QtCore.QSize(206,57)

        for n in btnlist:
            _name = str(n)
            self.drpbtns.append(QtGui.QPushButton(_name))
            self.drpbtns[i].clicked.connect(lambda checked, v=_name: func(v))
            self.drpbtns[i].resize(btn_size)
            self.drpbtns[i].move(x,y+(i*(self.drpbtns[i].height()-1)))
            self.drpbtns[i].setStyleSheet('background-color: rgb(255,255,255); \
                                           border: 1px solid rgb(216,216,216); \
                                           color: rgb(92,92,92); \
                                           font: bold 22pt "Avenir"')
            self.drpbtns[i].setFlat(True)


            i = i+1

Why would the buttons not respect the QSize() as assigned?

I have started a new thread in the Qt Forum at and will make sure that replies are cross populated between the two threads!

Solution

  • And turns out, I have found the solution to my problem here: https://forum.qt.io/topic/78752/how-to-place-widgets-by-specifying-positions-in-qframe

    I changed my QPushButton line to include the parent which resolved the issue: self.drpbtns.append(QtGui.QPushButton(_name,self.parent))