How to capture TabView tabs order change event

akaisora

Hello!

I would to know which signal is emitted when the user drags a tab within a tabview and changes its order.

Thanks!

Joel Bodenmann

I'm not exactly sure what a TabView is but as it's a view it has to have a QAbstractItemModel somewhere.
The QAbstractItemModel provides the signals that you are looking for:

QAbstractItemModel::columnsMoved()
QAbstractItemModel::rowsMoved()
...

The documentation lists all the available signals: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qabstractitemmodel.html#signals

Hope that helps.

akaisora

Thank you for your reply! It's actually a normal TabWidget, I missed that, as I named the component tabview, sorry about that.
Is your response still valid for a tabwidget?

Joel Bodenmann

The QTabWidget contains a QTabBar that you can retrieve with QTabWidget::tabBar(). The QTabBar has a signal tabMoved(int from, int to) that you can use.
Therefore, you'd end up with something like this:

connect(_myTabWidget->tabBar(), SIGNAL(tabMoved(int, int)), this, SLOT( ....

akaisora

Thank you very much! Really appreciate your help :)

Joel Bodenmann

You're welcome!

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