Add docks and make them visible

[franz]

QMainWindow::setTabPosition().

[devent]

QMainWindow::setTabPosition().

Thank you, but I think you misunderstood me. I try to explain better.

In my window I have a dock that is visible from the start of the application. Now I like to open another dock in the same location if the user clicks a button. But the problem is that the dock opens in the background of the dock-tab. The user need to click on the 'Units Ov...' tab to open the dock as you can see in the screenshot.

Now my question is: How do I put this new dock automaticly in the forderground?

I tried dock.show(), dock.setFocus() but nothing works.

[franz]

I didn't misinterpret your question, I misinterpreted the documentation for the function. I expected a way to influence the behavior of the QTabBar but couldn't find any either.

[devent]

I didn't misinterpret your question, I misinterpreted the documentation for the function. I expected a way to influence the behavior of the QTabBar but couldn't find any either.

I couldn't find anything either so I asked here. But thank you anyway, I 'solved' this by rearranging the docks in my GUI.

[winkle99]

I'm struggling with this as well in 4.5.2. I've added a second QDockWidget to the main window and successfully tabbed it as I desire using QMainWindow::tabifyDockWidget. However, the last dock widget added is NEVER selected. In my application the new dock widget represents the last open file so I always want that one to be active. I have tried using raise(), activateWindow(), and show(). Nothing has worked. I also tried reversing the order that the dock widgets are listed in my call to QMainWindow::tabifyDockWidget. I've tried calling raise() before tabifying the dock widget. Nothing is allowing me to programatically select a specific tabbed dock widget.

Has anyone found a solution or workaround for this problem? It's going to be a major annoyance to my users for them to have to select that tab in order to see the last file they opened.

Thanks

[Riateche]

I've found a solution. If you want to put created dock widget in a foreground tab, you should do this:

main_window->tabifyDockWidget(old_dock_widget, new_dock_widget);
QApplication::processEvents();
new_dock_widget->raise();