Center subwindows in qmdiarea

Question

Is there an attribute to position subwindows in qmdiarea? I’m trying to center subwindow in middle of mainwindow on startup (mdiarea)

I’m working on a mcve but haven’t finished it, wanted to see if anyone has tried doing this, and how they did it

Subwindows are randomly placed on startup when initialized

class App(QMainWindow, Ui_MainWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QMainWindow.__init__(self, parent=parent)
        self.setupUi(self)
        self.screenShape = QDesktopWidget().screenGeometry()
        self.width = self.screenShape.width()
        self.height = self.screenShape.height()
        self.resize(self.width * .6, self.height * .6)
        self.new = []
#calls GUI's in other modules
        self.lw = Login()
        self.vs = VS()
        self.ms = MS()
        self.hw = HomeWindow()
        self.mw = MainWindow()
        self.ga = GA()
        self.sGUI = Settings()
# shows subwindow
        self.CreateLogin()
        self.CreateVS()
        self.CreateMS()
        self.CreateGA()
        self.CreateSettings()

    def CreateLogin(self):
        self.subwindow = QMdiSubWindow()
        self.subwindow.setWidget(self.lw)
        self.subwindow.setAttribute(Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose, True)
        self.mdiArea.addSubWindow(self.subwindow)
        self.subwindow.setMaximumSize(520, 300)
        self.subwindow.setMinimumSize(520, 300)
        self.lw.showNormal()

    def CreateVS(self):
        self.subwindow = QMdiSubWindow()
        self.subwindow.setWidget(self.vs)
        self.mdiArea.addSubWindow(self.subwindow)
        self.vs.showMinimized()

    def CreateMS(self):
        self.subwindow = QMdiSubWindow()
        self.subwindow.setWidget(self.ms)
        self.mdiArea.addSubWindow(self.subwindow)
        self.ms.showMinimized()
        self.ms.tabWidget.setCurrentIndex(0)

    def CreateGA(self):
        self.subwindow = QMdiSubWindow()
        self.subwindow.setWidget(self.ga)
        self.mdiArea.addSubWindow(self.subwindow)
        self.ga.showMinimized()
        self.subwindow.setMaximumSize(820, 650)

    def CreateSettings(self):
        self.subwindow = QMdiSubWindow()
        self.subwindow.setWidget(self.sGUI)
        self.mdiArea.addSubWindow(self.subwindow)
        self.sGUI.showMinimized()

    def CreateWindow(self):
        self.hw.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.vs.showNormal)
        self.hw.pushButton_2.clicked.connect(self.Moduleprogram)
        self.hw.pushButton_3.clicked.connect(self.ms.showNormal)
        self.hw.pushButton_4.clicked.connect(self.ga.showNormal)
        self.subwindow = QMdiSubWindow()
        self.subwindow.setWindowFlags(Qt.CustomizeWindowHint | Qt.Tool)
        self.subwindow.setWidget(self.hw)
        self.subwindow.setMaximumSize(258, 264)
        self.subwindow.move(self.newwidth*.35, self.newheight*.25)
        self.mdiArea.addSubWindow(self.subwindow)

eyllanesc · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-27T02:29:02.050

In Qt the geometry is only effective when the window is visible so if you want to center something it must be in the showEvent method. On the other hand to center the QMdiSubWindow you must first get the center of the viewport of the QMdiArea, and according to that modify the geometry of the QMdiSubWindow.

Because the code you provide is complicated to execute, I have created my own code

from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
import random


def create_widget():
    widget = QtWidgets.QLabel(
        str(random.randint(0, 100)), alignment=QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter
    )
    widget.setStyleSheet(
        """background-color: {};""".format(
            QtGui.QColor(*random.sample(range(255), 3)).name()
        )
    )
    widget.setMinimumSize(*random.sample(range(100, 300), 2))
    return widget


class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super().__init__(parent)
        add_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton(
            "Add subwindow", clicked=self.add_subwindow
        )
        self._mdiarea = QtWidgets.QMdiArea()

        central_widget = QtWidgets.QWidget()
        self.setCentralWidget(central_widget)
        lay = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout(central_widget)
        lay.addWidget(add_button)
        lay.addWidget(self._mdiarea)

        self._is_first_time = True

        for _ in range(4):
            self.add_subwindow()

    @QtCore.pyqtSlot()
    def add_subwindow(self):
        widget = create_widget()
        subwindow = QtWidgets.QMdiSubWindow(self._mdiarea)
        subwindow.setWidget(widget)
        subwindow.setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose, True)
        subwindow.show()
        self._mdiarea.addSubWindow(subwindow)
        # self.center_subwindow(subwindow)

    def showEvent(self, event):
        if self.isVisible() and self._is_first_time:
            for subwindow in self._mdiarea.subWindowList():
                self.center_subwindow(subwindow)
            self._is_first_time = False

    def center_subwindow(self, subwindow):
        center = self._mdiarea.viewport().rect().center()
        geo = subwindow.geometry()
        geo.moveCenter(center)
        subwindow.setGeometry(geo)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys

    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
    w = MainWindow()
    w.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

Update:

If you want the subwindow to be centered then with the following code you have to create a property center to True:

def add_subwindow(self):
    widget = create_widget()
    subwindow = QtWidgets.QMdiSubWindow(self._mdiarea)
    subwindow.setWidget(widget)
    subwindow.setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose, True)
    subwindow.show()
    subwindow.setProperty("center", True) # <----
    self._mdiarea.addSubWindow(subwindow)

def showEvent(self, event):
    if self.isVisible() and self._is_first_time:
        for subwindow in self._mdiarea.subWindowList():
            if subwindow.property("center"): # <---
                self.center_subwindow(subwindow)
        self._is_first_time = False

Is the code you provided, for all subwindows, or can you do it to specific subwindows? — Drees, Apr 27 '19 at 02:18
Well In the code I provided, the ‘self.hw’ and ‘self.lw’ are the two I want to center, the others I don’t care about because they are initially hidden. — Drees, Apr 27 '19 at 02:25
I’ll have to work on my code, I’m not at work so I don’t have the access. Seems like it should do the trick. — Drees, Apr 27 '19 at 04:41

Center subwindows in qmdiarea

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