How to get currentTabName from QTabWidget on Qt?

KelvinSP

QTabWidget has a property called currentTabName.

How can I access the currentTabName by code?

I need to check what tab is selected, but I can't use the tab text (tabText) because it is translatable and may change and I don't want to use the tab index (currentIndex) because the index may change in the future.

I'm using Qt 5.3

SGaist

Hi,

Where did you see that property ?

Why do you need to check which tab is selected and particularly why by its name ?

KelvinSP

@SGaist, I found the property here:

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I want to access the tab by a value that will be not changed in the future. The text and the index may be changed.

I have a button that calls a function that loads a new window based on the selected tab (this new window is used only to show some tips about the currently opened tab), so I need to check what tab is currently selected.

For example:

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Chris Kawa

This is the object name of the current widget. From code you'd get it like this:

QString currentTabName = tabWidget->currentWidget()->objectName();

As the doc suggest make sure you check for nullptr when using tabWidget->currentWidget().

KelvinSP

@Chris-Kawa thanks a lot. This is exactly what I was looking for.