Multiple tabbed QDockWidget and default selection

[skimpax]

Hi,

I created several QDockWidget which are tabbified by default using this :

mainWindow_->tabifyDockWidget(prevDock, dock);

mainWindow_->tabifyDockWidget(prevDock, dock);

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When the aplication starts, this is the last tab which is selected by default. I want to have the FIRST tab selected instead.
Using

setFocus()

setFocus()

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on first tab/dock does not change anything.

Any idea ?

BR

[winkle99]

After a LOT of searching I finally came up with a work around that mostly works. It's cumbersome. I basically, get all of the tabBars in my main window and check their children until I find the QTabBar that contains my dock widgets. (I couldn't get to the QDockWidgets by grabbing the tab bar so I check the tabText to see if the tab label is what I expect.) Then, I call setCurrentIndex on that tabBar to select the desired tabe thus putting my QDockWidget on top.

The other issue I ran into is that I couldn't do this while still in my project open slot (the tabbar had not finished updating.) To get around this I set a timer. When the timer fires I'm able to go through the process I explain above, and the desired tab is on top.

I do hope that an api method is added to handle this more simply.

[srazi]

firstTab->show();
firstTab->raise();

[ansif]

thanks srazi.. your solution is great....

[serget]

It does not work for me.
firstTab->raise() has no effect. Any ideas?

[fieryrich]

I'm also having an issue with this. I would appreciate any advice on being able to set the current tabbed dockwidget.

[ChrisW67]

Call QWidget::raise() on the dock widget you want on top. There's not much more to it than that.

#include <QtGui>
#include <QDebug>
 
class MainWindow: public QMainWindow {
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    MainWindow(QWidget *p = 0): QMainWindow(p) {
        setCentralWidget(new QTextEdit(this));
 
        dock1 = new QDockWidget("Dock1", this);
        dock1->setWidget(new QLabel("Dock 1 content", this));
        addDockWidget(Qt::RightDockWidgetArea, dock1);
        dock2 = new QDockWidget("Dock2", this);
        dock2->setWidget(new QLabel("Dock 2 content", this));
        addDockWidget(Qt::RightDockWidgetArea, dock2);
        tabifyDockWidget(dock1, dock2); 
 
        flop = true;
        connect(&timer, SIGNAL(timeout()), SLOT(flip()));
        timer.start(2000);
    }
public slots:
    void flip() {
        if (flop)
           dock1->raise();
        else
            dock2->raise();
        flop = !flop;
    }
 
private:
    QDockWidget *dock1;
    QDockWidget *dock2;
    QTimer timer;
    bool flop;
};
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);
 
    MainWindow m;
    m.show();
    return app.exec();
}
#include "main.moc"

#include <QtGui>
#include <QDebug>

class MainWindow: public QMainWindow {
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    MainWindow(QWidget *p = 0): QMainWindow(p) {
        setCentralWidget(new QTextEdit(this));

        dock1 = new QDockWidget("Dock1", this);
        dock1->setWidget(new QLabel("Dock 1 content", this));
        addDockWidget(Qt::RightDockWidgetArea, dock1);
        dock2 = new QDockWidget("Dock2", this);
        dock2->setWidget(new QLabel("Dock 2 content", this));
        addDockWidget(Qt::RightDockWidgetArea, dock2);
        tabifyDockWidget(dock1, dock2); 

        flop = true;
        connect(&timer, SIGNAL(timeout()), SLOT(flip()));
        timer.start(2000);
    }
public slots:
    void flip() {
        if (flop)
           dock1->raise();
        else
            dock2->raise();
        flop = !flop;
    }

private:
    QDockWidget *dock1;
    QDockWidget *dock2;
    QTimer timer;
    bool flop;
};

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);

    MainWindow m;
    m.show();
    return app.exec();
}
#include "main.moc"

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