Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-04-03 Thread Adam Light
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 8:40 AM Murphy, Sean wrote: > > This works for me, and the button is small 16x16. > > > > m_TheTabWidget->setCornerWidget(bp1); > > You know, I saw that function and for some reason switched it > in my head to be talking about the corner cell in a QTableWidget, > n

Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread André Pönitz
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 09:19:37PM +, Murphy, Sean wrote: > > > there doesn't appear to be an easy way to add widgets in the tab widget's > > tab bar. > > > > QTabWidget::tabBar(), layout(), addItem() ? > > I meant "easy" in the sense of a functions like these (which don't exist): > QToolButt

Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread Murphy, Sean
> > there doesn't appear to be an easy way to add widgets in the tab widget's > tab bar. > > QTabWidget::tabBar(), layout(), addItem() ? I meant "easy" in the sense of a functions like these (which don't exist): QToolButton* QTabWidget::leftScrollButton() QToolButton* QTabWidget::rightScrollB

Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread André Pönitz
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 03:02:42PM +, Murphy, Sean wrote: > Honestly, an decent solution would be where if I could modify the tab widget's > tab bar to never show the scroll buttons (easy enough with the > usesScrollButtons > property), and instead always show the tool button. This looks harde

Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread André Pönitz
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 11:15:19AM -0400, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Instead, you might want to look at e.g. KDevelop, Konqueror or Falkon > (maybe Qt Creator can be added to that list also?) to see what they do. Qt Creator is notorious for not using tabs. Or at least it was notorious, looks like Wi

Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread André Pönitz
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 01:56:00PM +, Murphy, Sean wrote: > Is there a way to get access to the scroll buttons on a QTabWidget to > customize > them? You can always check where the code driving the feature hides in the code and then drill down using findChild() in the application. From a qui

Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread Murphy, Sean
> This works for me, and the button is small 16x16. > > m_TheTabWidget->setCornerWidget(bp1); You know, I saw that function and for some reason switched it in my head to be talking about the corner cell in a QTableWidget, not talking about a QTabWidget. Apparently I need more caffeine to

Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread william.croc...@analog.com
On 03/26/2019 11:02 AM, Murphy, Sean wrote: [External] You could add a tool-button with said popup menu associated to it to the right of the tab widget (e.g. Firefox does this). This would have the advantage from my PoV that it's always there and works, regardless of how many tabs are open.

Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 26/03/2019 09.56, Murphy, Sean wrote: > Is there a way to get access to the scroll buttons on a QTabWidget to > customize them? > > The issue we're having is that we have a UI that uses a tab widget for > displaying file contents - one tab per open file. Once a user opens enough > files/tabs

Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread Murphy, Sean
> You could add a tool-button with said popup menu associated to it to the > right of the tab widget (e.g. Firefox does this). This would have the > advantage from my PoV that it's always there and works, regardless of > how many tabs are open. I'll ask whether this would be acceptable. As I menti

Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread Murphy, Sean
> > A request has come in to allow the user to right-click on the scroll > > buttons, > which would then open a popup menu of all open tab names which they can > select from, and then I could just set the selected tab as the currentIndex(). > But I don't see anything on https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtab

Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread Marian Beermann
You could add a tool-button with said popup menu associated to it to the right of the tab widget (e.g. Firefox does this). This would have the advantage from my PoV that it's always there and works, regardless of how many tabs are open. -Marian Am 26.03.19 um 14:56 schrieb Murphy, Sean: > Is ther

Re: [Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread william.croc...@analog.com
Is there a way to get access to the scroll buttons on a QTabWidget to customize them? The issue we're having is that we have a UI that uses a tab widget for displaying file contents - one tab per open file. Once a user opens enough files/tabs, the tab scroll buttons pop up (so far so good),

[Interest] QTabWidget scroll buttons

2019-03-26 Thread Murphy, Sean
Is there a way to get access to the scroll buttons on a QTabWidget to customize them? The issue we're having is that we have a UI that uses a tab widget for displaying file contents - one tab per open file. Once a user opens enough files/tabs, the tab scroll buttons pop up (so far so good), but