/**************************************************************************** ** ** Copyright (C) 2013 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies). ** Contact: http://www.qt-project.org/legal ** ** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit. ** ** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:FDL$ ** Commercial License Usage ** Licensees holding valid commercial Qt licenses may use this file in ** accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the ** Software or, alternatively, in accordance with the terms contained in ** a written agreement between you and Digia. For licensing terms and ** conditions see http://qt.digia.com/licensing. For further information ** use the contact form at http://qt.digia.com/contact-us. ** ** GNU Free Documentation License Usage ** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Free ** Documentation License version 1.3 as published by the Free Software ** Foundation and appearing in the file included in the packaging of ** this file. Please review the following information to ensure ** the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 requirements ** will be met: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html. ** $QT_END_LICENSE$ ** ****************************************************************************/ /*! \page restoring-geometry.html \title Restoring a Window's Geometry \brief How to save & restore window geometry. \ingroup best-practices This document describes how to save and restore a \l{Window Geometry}{window's geometry} using the geometry properties. On Windows, this is basically storing the result of QWindow::geometry() and calling QWindow::setGeometry() in the next session before calling \l{QWindow::show()}{show()}. On X11, this might not work because an invisible window does not have a frame yet. The window manager will decorate the window later. When this happens, the window shifts towards the bottom/right corner of the screen depending on the size of the decoration frame. Although X provides a way to avoid this shift, some window managers fail to implement this feature. When using \l{Qt Widgets}, Qt provides functions that saves and restores a widget window's geometry and state for you. QWidget::saveGeometry() saves the window geometry and maximized/fullscreen state, while QWidget::restoreGeometry() restores it. The restore function also checks if the restored geometry is outside the available screen geometry, and modifies it as appropriate if it is: \snippet snippets/code/src_gui_widgets_qmainwindow.cpp 0 \snippet snippets/code/src_gui_widgets_qmainwindow.cpp 1 Another solution is to store both \l{QWidget::pos()}{pos()} and \l{QWidget::size()}{size()} and to restore the geometry using \l{QWidget::resize()} and \l{QWidget::move()}{move()} before calling \l{QWidget::show()}{show()}, as demonstrated in the \l{mainwindows/application}{Application} example. */