[QTabWidget] horizontal text on left side

[Boy]

Hi,

small simple question: is it possible to have the tabs on the left side of the widget with the text shown horizontally...don't want user to hurt their necks when reading it ;)

[wysota]

No, Qt doesn't provide it. You'd have to subclass QTabBar and implement it yourself.

[Boy]

So QTabBar should support horizontal text on the left side? (don't see the option yet in the Assistant, but still looking)

if so: I can access the protected member QTabBar and then alter it

[wysota]

So QTabBar should support horizontal text on the left side?

I don't see why not. But you have to implement it yourself.

[Boy]

what I do as solution is buttons on the left with a frame. Instead of tabs, I created widgets and when pushing a button, the corresponding widget's parent is set to the frame

[wysota]

Use a QStackedWidget and a QButtonGroup. Then you'll be able to do everything using signals and slots with practically no additional code.

[Boy]

I found that out yesterday! :) thanks for your help again!