Need Help for tabs in title bar

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ok. I will try to do that as soon as my project is done. Now for my own problem. I got one application from KDE called rekonq. It is light web browser. It has similar layout (tabs in title bar) in its latest version 2.0 as i need to implement . And best part is it is implemented using qt.
I am trying to understand the source code. Still it will be better if someone land a hand in it.
Please.
I will also trying to understand chromium web browser code.
I hope i will get good results soon.

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What do u think about ribbon ui ? it can be widget ?

andre

Sure. You can even buy an "implementation":http://www.devmachines.com/qtitanribbon-overview.html of it for Qt. I've run some tests with it, and it seems to work nicely.

Chris Kawa

I might be wrong but weren't there some MS restrictions as to where you can use ribbon ui? E.g. not in MS competing products (text editors, data sheets etc.)?

andre

There are. See the comment on the bottom of the page I linked to:
[quote]Remarks on the licensing Ribbon UI
If you create an application that uses QtitanRibbon components, you must agree to a licensing agreement with Microsoft for the Ribbon UI before you can deploy your application. You receive no rights in the Ribbon UI from Developer Machines. You can request a license from Microsoft at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809/.[/quote]

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Thank u Andre for your expert Guidance. Can you help me on my problem. I still haven't solve it completely.
Please

andre

You'll have to be more specific on what your (remaining) problems are than that to get usable answers...

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ok
I am developing a document reader application for my college project using QT.
For that i trying to achieve the user interface same as chrome ( having tabs in title bar with new tab button and each tab has its own tool bar). I am trying to achieve this in cross platform manner so that i can develop and deploy the application on Windows, Mac os x and Linux.
this is my problem that how can i do this using qt ?

andre

As you were told before: there is no cross-platform way to do this. Drawing in the client-area (as it is called on windows at least) is not supported by Qt.

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Thank u for answer. I am changing my layout as i don't have enough time to implement it effectively. Instead of drawing tabs on window border i am drawing them inside the window as i draw in following frame
":https://picasaweb.google.com/102226343931302605620/January242013#5837056419679280498
is this will be cross platform with qt ?

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":https://picasaweb.google.com/102226343931302605620/January242013#5837056419679280498

andre

Sure, that should be easy to get cross platform. As long as you use normal widgets and don't do OS specific code, it should be completely cross platform.