Making multiple windows on browser

qxoz · wrote on 4 Jun 2013, 04:16

Hi!
Of course you can make multiple windows for your single application, there are many ways to do that.
For browser kind app i think QTabWidget is convenient or you can use MDI or simple parent child dialogs. It depends of your goals.

nicky j · wrote on 4 Jun 2013, 04:19

qxoz, thanks for the quick response!
what are the differences between QTabWidget, MDI, or simple parent child dialogs? My goal is to make the browser display a new window when I press a button.

qxoz · wrote on 4 Jun 2013, 04:26

Well
"QTabWidget":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtwidgets/qtabwidget.html
"MDI":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtwidgets/mainwindows-mdi.html
"Dialog":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtwidgets/examples-dialogs.html

How do you imagine your app, how it will look like?

nicky j · wrote on 4 Jun 2013, 04:32

here it is thus far:
my design philosophy is to be sleek yet functional. kinda a hybrid between chrome and firefox. I would like to possibly make a tab row underneath the search bar row.

qxoz · wrote on 4 Jun 2013, 04:43

Ok, use QTabWidget then.

nicky j · wrote on 4 Jun 2013, 04:46

ok, thanks. is there a way to undo size constraints?

nicky j · wrote on 12 Jun 2013, 23:48

ok, so i am still really confused on how to use QTabWidget.

qxoz · wrote on 13 Jun 2013, 06:29

What is the problem?

nicky j · wrote on 14 Jun 2013, 21:57

@qxoz,
So I have read the documentation, but im not sure how to make it switch tabs. Do I have to make separate windows for each tab? I know im being vague, but I just don't really understand how to get started with the tabs.

nicky j · wrote on 19 Jun 2013, 23:08

help anyone?

qxoz · wrote on 20 Jun 2013, 11:10

Maybe this "link":http://www.codeprogress.com/cpp/libraries/qt/qtClasses.php?item=QTabwidget can be helpful.

nicky j · wrote on 22 Jun 2013, 03:36

Aha thankyou!