[SOLVED] Return contents of geometry() as a list in PySide

Return contents of geometry() as a list in PySide

I'm currently writing an application in PySide, and I want it to save the window dimensions upon exiting. The geometry() method retuns something like PySide.QtCore.QRect(300, 300, 550, 150) but all I want is (300, 300, 550, 150). I could find a way to parse it, but I want a cleaner method. Any suggestions?

Solution

The cleaner way, without any parsing, would be to use QSettings to store and retrieve the QRect returned by geometry to/from the native application settings storage (Windows registry, .ini file, .plist file...).

For example:

settings = QSettings(...);    
settings.setValue("lastGeometry", self.geometry())

# and to retrieve the value
lastGeometry = settings.value("lastGeometry")
if lastGeometry.isValid():
    self.setGeometry(lastGeometry)

You can also binary serialize or deserialize a QRect with QDataStream to a 16 byte array representing the 4 32-bit integers.