Replacing icons of tabs QTabWidget with labels on customwidget

Hi,

I was looking for a way to replace the icon on the tab of a tabbed widget with a Qlabel so I can play a movie on it. I tried using settabbutton with a qlabel but it just resizes the label and puts it on the side of the icon. I would like to totally replace the icon with the label if possible and set the same size as the icon for the label. This is a standalone widget.

By default QTabWidget tab's don't have icons, you might have added it, just avoid adding it.

You can sub-class QTabWidget and implement the below virtual method, it will set the QLabel on to the tab of the newly added tab page(widget)

Code:

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void myTabWidget::tabInserted(int index)
{
    QString text = tabText(index);
    setTabText(index, QString()); //clear the title in the tab, if you want
 
    QLabel * label = new QLabel(text);
    label->setFont(QFont("Arial", 48, 100, true));
    tabBar()->setTabButton(index, QTabBar::LeftSide, label);
}

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