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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 08:39:39 +0100
From: Phil Thompson <phil@riverbankcomputing.com>
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Subject: Re: Using PyQT with QT Designer
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:08:14 -0700 (PDT), tausciam@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, August 22, 2013 3:26:17 AM UTC-5, Phil Thompson wrote:
> 
>> It looks like you aren't using a layout to arrange your widgets.
>> 
>> Explicitly specifying geometries is a bad idea.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Phil
> 
> Thanks.QT Designer uses set geometry

...only because you have told it to...

> and I'm totally lost as how to
> implement it. I've tried using a layout on the central widget. I've
tried
> specifically referencing the Ui_MainWindow in the window.py ui file...

You need to read up on how to use layouts in Designer. The generated .py
file will then do what you want automatically.

Phil