What's the difference in Qt between setVisible, setShown and show/hide

Question

Please excuse this potentially noobish question but when trying to hide a QWidget what is the difference between calling setVisible(False), setShown(False) and hide()?

Answer 1

There is no difference. They are just different ways of achieving the same thing. (Actually setShown isn't really part of the API, it looks like it's a compatibility thing from Qt 3, so best not to use it.)