Button on QTabWidget

**winston2020** · 23rd October 2008, 20:24

Hi, I'd like to add a "New Tab" button to a QTabWidget. The button should be beside the tab titles. Could someone point me to a tutorial? Or a piece of code?

**spirit** · 24th October 2008, 07:26

this button will be available only in 4.5 in QTabWidget according to this post Some QTabBar & QTabWidget love. so, there are too opportunities, the first one: download 4.5 technology preview or add this button by inheriting of QTabWidget.

**spirit** · 24th October 2008, 07:43

sorry, I thought that you meen that buttons should be located on each tab, but you mean that this button should be located like "Add page' button in assistant, right?

**spirit** · 24th October 2008, 07:45

there is snippet of code how trolls do this in Assistant

Qt Code:

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QToolButton *newTabButton = new QToolButton(this);
ui.tab->setCornerWidget(newTabButton, Qt::TopLeftCorner);
newTabButton->setCursor(Qt::ArrowCursor);
newTabButton->setAutoRaise(true);
newTabButton->setIcon(QIcon(ImageLocation + QLatin1String("addtab.png")));
QObject::connect(newTabButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(newTab()));
newTabButton->setToolTip(tr("Add page"));
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QToolButton *newTabButton = new QToolButton(this);
ui.tab->setCornerWidget(newTabButton, Qt::TopLeftCorner);
newTabButton->setCursor(Qt::ArrowCursor);
newTabButton->setAutoRaise(true);
newTabButton->setIcon(QIcon(ImageLocation + QLatin1String("addtab.png")));
QObject::connect(newTabButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(newTab()));
newTabButton->setToolTip(tr("Add page"));
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