[Qt-interest] Tab Positions QDockWidgets Show/Hide not remembered! Can't get active tab either!

[velociraptor Genjix]

I've also made a bug report here http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-14725

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> From: aphidia at hotmail.com
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:29:44 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Tab Positions QDockWidgets Show/Hide not remembered! Can't get active tab either!
>
>
> Can Qt add a QMainWindow::setDockAreaVisible(Qt::DockWidgetArea area, bool visible) to their API?
>
> Looking at:
>
> http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/blobs/4.7/src/gui/widgets/qdockarealayout_p.h
>
> It looks like a trivial change:
> add to
>
> class QDockAreaLayout
> {
>   QDockAreaLayoutInfo hiddenDocks[4];  // hidden dock windows
>   bool dockHidden[4];  // initialise to false, false, false, false on initialiser
> };
> QDockAreaLayout::setVisible(QInternal::DockPosition pos, bool visible)
>
> if (!visible) {
> // copy
> hiddenDocks[pos] = docks[pos];
> dockHidden[pos] = true;
> // clear the dock widget area
> docks[pos].clear();
> } else {
> docks[pos] = hiddenDocks[pos];
> }
>
>
> And add to QMainWindow::setVisible(area, bool) which does:
> layoutState.dockAreaLayout.setVisible(toDockPos(area), bool);
> invalidate();
>
> Hiding/showing a sidepanel is such a common use-case :) This is a really needed feature.
>
> ----------------------------------------
> > From: aphidia at hotmail.com
> > CC: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:43:27 +0000
> > Subject: [Qt-interest] Tab Positions QDockWidgets Show/Hide not remembered! Can't get active tab either!
> >
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> >
> >
> > C++ example (run qmake/make):
> > http://www.qtcentre.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=5397&d=1288020905
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to make a QDockWidget area that rolls in and out when the user mouse-overs.
> > To do that I getting all the dock widgets from the window by
> > window.findChildren() and then doing
> > w.setVisible(false) on all of them.
> >
> >
> >
> > Problem is that it has bugs. If you download, build and run the C++
> > example above then Qt selects the tab position selected before the
> > current one, and then reselects the last one again and so forth.
> >
> >
> > If I try to restore the active tab manually then I run into a problem- QDockWidgets uses QTabBar but they don't use QTabWidget! So how am I
> > meant to see which QDockWidget belongs to which QTabBar so I can restore
> > the state? QDockWidget doesn't use QTabWidget for tabifying itself. Although it DOES use
> > QTabBar and I'm able to reset the active tab using that (although I have
> > no way to confirm which QTabBar belongs to which QTabWidget or if at
> > all).
> >
> > What can I do here?
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