TabWidget's Tab's parent

[alisami]

Spirit thanks for your interest.

First I shall describe the reason for doing such a thing. I have created a custom widget and part of it hides all the windows related to the widget it is located. So I connect one of its clicked() signals to the underlying QMainWindow but the level of the QMainWindow is not known to the widget. So I traverse the parents.

On the constructor of the widget, I traverse the parents but since during the construction, the page is not added to the tab widget, and so the parent is absent.

So, what I have to do is I should trigger a slot of my custom widget to make the connections to the QMainWindow when setupUi is finished.

Is it possible to achieve this? Or can I change the order of the construction of the ui_XXX.h files.

[spirit]

Or can I change the order of the construction of the ui_XXX.h files.

chaching something in ui_xxx.h it's bad idea, because this file is generated automatically by uic, so when you change you ui file, ui_xxx.h will be regenerated and all data which you added will be lost.

[spirit]

Is it possible to achieve this?

so, create method in QMainWindow which will return your tabwidget.

[alisami]

The problem is that the custom widget will be inserted to various places. Not only to a tabwidget. I just don't want to add some code to every widget containing my custom widget. So I decided to add a flag to my custom flag to see if the QMainWindow is successfully connected to the signal and if not, it tries to connect before firing any signals.