Qt-interest Archive, April 2007
Detecting docked state of two overlapping QDockWidgets ?
Message 1 in thread
I have two QDockWidget-derived controls.
When I drag one onto the other, they dock them in two different ways
depending on where I do the drop:
1. stacked
2. overlapping
Overlapping automatically creates a tab control and allows me to click
between the two QDockWidget controls.
My question:
How can I detect the details of these two docked configurations so I can
save them to my QSettings object? I want the application to restart
with the same docked configuration.
Thanks
Mark
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Message 2 in thread
Mark Thompson wrote:
>
> I have two QDockWidget-derived controls.
>
> When I drag one onto the other, they dock them in two different ways
> depending on where I do the drop:
> 1. stacked
> 2. overlapping
>
> Overlapping automatically creates a tab control and allows me to click
> between the two QDockWidget controls.
>
> My question:
> How can I detect the details of these two docked configurations so I can
> save them to my QSettings object? I want the application to restart
> with the same docked configuration.
Just use QMainWindow::saveState() and restoreState(). It will store
everything for you, including toolbar locations, etc.
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Message 3 in thread
Hi Paul,
Thanks QMainWindow::saveState() worked.
One question: When the two QDockWidgets are docked in an overlapping
configuration, Qt overlays them with a tab control. I suppose the
parenting of the QDockWidget is dynamically changed from the QMainWindow
to a new tab control as one docks it?
How can I programatically get access to this tab control?
The reason is when something interesting happens on the hidden tab (for
the QDockWidget that is "behind"), I need to bring it to the
foreground. If I had a pointer to the tab control, I suppose I could
use setCurrentIndex(index). I tried setFocus(), show(), and
setWindowState(Qt::WindowActive) for the QDockWidget and it did not
bring it to the front.
Mark
Paul Miller wrote:
> Mark Thompson wrote:
>>
>> I have two QDockWidget-derived controls.
>>
>> When I drag one onto the other, they dock them in two different ways
>> depending on where I do the drop:
>> 1. stacked
>> 2. overlapping
>>
>> Overlapping automatically creates a tab control and allows me to
>> click between the two QDockWidget controls.
>>
>> My question:
>> How can I detect the details of these two docked configurations so I
>> can save them to my QSettings object? I want the application to
>> restart with the same docked configuration.
>
> Just use QMainWindow::saveState() and restoreState(). It will store
> everything for you, including toolbar locations, etc.
>
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Message 4 in thread
You can use raise() on the QDockWidget.
Marc
qt-interest-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 21-04-2007 20:13:28:
> Hi Paul,
> Thanks QMainWindow::saveState() worked.
>
> One question: When the two QDockWidgets are docked in an overlapping
> configuration, Qt overlays them with a tab control. I suppose the
> parenting of the QDockWidget is dynamically changed from the QMainWindow
> to a new tab control as one docks it?
>
> How can I programatically get access to this tab control?
>
> The reason is when something interesting happens on the hidden tab (for
> the QDockWidget that is "behind"), I need to bring it to the
> foreground. If I had a pointer to the tab control, I suppose I could
> use setCurrentIndex(index). I tried setFocus(), show(), and
> setWindowState(Qt::WindowActive) for the QDockWidget and it did not
> bring it to the front.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Paul Miller wrote:
> > Mark Thompson wrote:
> >>
> >> I have two QDockWidget-derived controls.
> >>
> >> When I drag one onto the other, they dock them in two different ways
> >> depending on where I do the drop:
> >> 1. stacked
> >> 2. overlapping
> >>
> >> Overlapping automatically creates a tab control and allows me to
> >> click between the two QDockWidget controls.
> >>
> >> My question:
> >> How can I detect the details of these two docked configurations so I
> >> can save them to my QSettings object? I want the application to
> >> restart with the same docked configuration.
> >
> > Just use QMainWindow::saveState() and restoreState(). It will store
> > everything for you, including toolbar locations, etc.
> >
>
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> Mark Thompson
> Seattle, WA
> http://www.arguslab.com
> mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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>
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