Hey Raindog,
WTabWidget - is a ready to use widget which uses WMenu with specific
styling. If you need full control of contents stack (aka WStackedWidget)
you can use pure WMenu and WStackedWidget.
2010/10/26 Raindog <[email protected]>
> On 10/26/2010 1:03 AM, Raindog wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to use a WTabWidget to implement a navigation tool bar
> > (basically a horizontal menu, where when a tab is clicked, it loads
> > different content. The problem I have is that the way that WMenu and
> > WTabWidget work is that you create a menu/tab item, and then pass in a
> > WWidget* that you want to have displayed when the user clicks the menu
> > item and the menu control itself takes care of positioning the widget
> > either below or to the side of the menu.
> >
> > What I want to do is to be able to take control of where the widget is
> > positioned on the page without regard to the position of the actual menu
> > itself, so what I did was I passed in NULL pointers to the addTab, I
> > stored the index along with the widget i wanted associated with that tab
> > and connected the currentChanged event to a handler, that would look up
> > the widget from a std::map, remove the old widget from being displayed,
> > and add in the new widget.
> >
> > Like this:
> >
> > void navBarChanged(int tabClicked)
> > {
> > Wt::WLayoutItem *item =
> layout->itemAt(Wt::WBorderLayout::Center);
> > layout->removeItem(item);
> > layout->addWidget(tabbedControls[tabClicked],
> > Wt::WBorderLayout::Center);
> > }
> >
> > layout is a WHBoxLayout.
> >
> > My goal is to make my navigation bar decoupled from the rest of the
> > layout of the site and make one main component responsible for all
> > layout logic.
> >
> > However, after implementing the solution I described, I discovered that
> > removing and a new item to the layout does not actually cause it to be
> > displayed.
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to go about dynamically adding and removing
> > content to a layout?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
>
> So I've done some more searching and it looks like what I would really
> need is the ability to set the WStackedWidget in WTabWidget to one that
> I have already constructed, and hence can give to a layout of my
> choosing. Since the parts of the WTabWidget interface that are important
> are private, besides copy paste and creating a MyTabWidget, does anyone
> have any other suggestions that I can do to accomplish this?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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