There is a workaround and current implementation of WTabWidget
allow you access its contents stack like this:
Wt::WTabWidget* tw = new WTabWidget();
Wt::WStackedWidget* cs = tw->addTab(..)->menu()->contentsStack();
// you code next
But its not so elegant :-). But its just works.
2010/10/26 Raindog <[email protected]>
> What I ended up doing was copy/pasting WTabWidget, as I didn't want to
> also be responsible for coding all of the look and feel code too. I
> think in a future version of Wt, perhaps there should be a field to
> provide ones own stackedwidget to WTabWidget.
>
> On 10/26/2010 2:06 AM, Dmitriy Igrishin wrote:
> > 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]
> > <mailto:[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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