[Interest] QDockWidgets: how to get regular windows in detached (floating) mode?

Vadim Peretokin vperetokin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 12:45:44 CEST 2017


Are you using QToolBar? The only thing those can do is move around in the
tab bar, but they can't be dragged out...

I'd love to have browser-like functionality where you could drag those tabs
out as well which is why I'm so keen on what you're doing here!

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:27 PM René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thursday October 12 2017 09:06:52 Vadim Peretokin wrote:
>
> >Rene, with the thing you're making - would it then be possible to achieve
> >browser-like behaviour of being able to drag tabs out into their own
> >windows?
>
> Not for any kind of tab of course, only those that are usually docked to a
> toolbar on one of the window edges. You can already drag them out into
> their own window, but those don't behave like standard windows.
>
> >With those windows movable to other monitors as well?
>
> On Mac I can already do that with QDockWidgets in floating mode, doesn't
> it work like that on other platforms?
>
> R.
>
>
>
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