// Copyright (C) 2016 The Qt Company Ltd. // SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-only /*! \page restoring-geometry.html \title Restoring a Window's Geometry \brief How to save and 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()}. */