get position of a dockable widget in python

[morten_bohne]

I'm trying to make a Pyside widget dockable to the main max window. Since i'm working in max17, as far as i can see, my only option is using MaxPlus.MakeQWidgetDockable

But after setting the widget to dockable, the normal pyside calls to geometry(), pos() etc stops working:

from PySide import QtGui, QtCore
import MaxPlus

class TestWindow(QtGui.QWidget):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        super(TestWindow, self).__init__(parent)
        # make dockable to right side
        MaxPlus.MakeQWidgetDockable(self, 8)
        self.main_layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.setLayout(self.main_layout)
        self.label = QtGui.QLabel("This window docks right")
        self.main_layout.addWidget(self.label)
        self.show()

w = TestWindow(parent=MaxPlus.GetQMaxWindow())
print w.pos()

>> PySide.QtCore.QPoint(0, 0)

and after moving the window around, printing the pos again will continue to return:

PySide.QtCore.QPoint(4, 4)

Any ideas or workarounds to how i can allow my users to dock the window, but if they haven't, store the window-geometry using QtCore.QSettings?

[richecoeur.m]

Hi, did you find a workaround 🙂 ? 

[morten_bohne]

Not sure, and I have changed job since that, so can't really go back and check. (Think it's been a year since last time i opened Max 😃)

As I recall, I ended up only storing the geometry if the widget isn't dockable.

-Hope you find a better solution

[richecoeur.m]

Okay 😄 i will just make my widget float then. I tried to hack the thing, but without success... i will just wait for my studio to upgrade our 3dsmax  .Thank you for your response after all these years! 

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