A QtGui.QSplitter lets the user control the size of child widgets by dragging the boundary between the children. In our example, we show three QtGui.QFrame widgets organized with two splitters.
#!/usr/bin/python# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-"""ZetCode PyQt4 tutorial This example showshow to use QtGui.QSplitter widget. author: Jan Bodnarwebsite: zetcode.com last edited: September 2011"""import sysfrom PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCoreclass Example(QtGui.QWidget): def __init__(self): super(Example, self).__init__() self.initUI() def initUI(self): hbox = QtGui.QHBoxLayout(self) topleft = QtGui.QFrame(self) topleft.setFrameShape(QtGui.QFrame.StyledPanel) topright = QtGui.QFrame(self) topright.setFrameShape(QtGui.QFrame.StyledPanel) bottom = QtGui.QFrame(self) bottom.setFrameShape(QtGui.QFrame.StyledPanel) splitter1 = QtGui.QSplitter(QtCore.Qt.Horizontal) splitter1.addWidget(topleft) splitter1.addWidget(topright) splitter2 = QtGui.QSplitter(QtCore.Qt.Vertical) splitter2.addWidget(splitter1) splitter2.addWidget(bottom) hbox.addWidget(splitter2) self.setLayout(hbox) QtGui.QApplication.setStyle(QtGui.QStyleFactory.create('Cleanlooks')) self.setGeometry(300, 300, 300, 200) self.setWindowTitle('QtGui.QSplitter') self.show() def main(): app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv) ex = Example() sys.exit(app.exec_())if __name__ == '__main__': main() In our example, we have three frame widgets and two splitters.
topleft = QtGui.QFrame(self)topleft.setFrameShape(QtGui.QFrame.StyledPanel)
We use a styled frame in order to see the boundaries between the QtGui.QFrame widgets.
splitter1 = QtGui.QSplitter(QtCore.Qt.Horizontal)splitter1.addWidget(topleft)splitter1.addWidget(topright)
We create a QtGui.QSplitter widget and add two frames into it.
splitter2 = QtGui.QSplitter(QtCore.Qt.Vertical)splitter2.addWidget(splitter1)
We can also add a splitter to another splitter widget.
QtGui.QApplication.setStyle(QtGui.QStyleFactory.create('Cleanlooks')) We use a Cleanlooks style. In some styles the frames are not visible.
Figure: QtGui.QSplitter widget