Is there a simple way to restore widget sizes in Qt?

I'm looking for a way to preserve the size of windows in a Qt app.

I've seen that there is the possibility of using the following method for every widget:

saveGeometry()

But really, I don't find this a satisfactioning method. Is there something like setAutosaveGeometry(True)?

I'm especially looking for a way to store the widths of table columns.

From stackoverflow

• saveGeometry returns a QByteArray value, you need to store it somewhere.

  Example:

  void MainWindow::closeEvent(QCloseEvent *event){
      QSettings settings;
  
      settings.setValue("geometry", saveGeometry());
  }

  For reading the geometry call the restoreGeometry function:

  MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent):QMainWindow(parent) {
      [...]
  
      QSettings settings;
  
      restoreGeometry(settings.value("geometry").toByteArray());
  
      [...]
  }

  To learn more about window geometry please read the documentation

  Georg : I knew that already. I'm looking for a way to restore the layout of a QTableView, not only the window geometry.

• See the Qt documentation on Restoring a Window's Geometry.

  Georg : This doesn't store the geometry of the children of the window. (Not all of them should be stored though…)

• The QHeaderView class also has two methods for saving and restoring it's state to and from a QByteArray: saveState()and restoreState()

  A table view's headers are accessible via the horizontalHeader() and verticalHeader() methods.