Hide an Icon in a Tab

[leinad]

Hi,

I have a tabWidget where I added an icon to a tab which was very simple to do. The problem is when the user clicks on the tab I change the text on the tab but I also would like to hide the icon. I did subclass QTabWidget and QTabBar so I do have a paintEvent capability if I need it. Can someone explain to me how I can hide the icon or remove it, either is okay. I searched hi and low but there doesn't seem to be any threads on the subject.

Any help is appreciated.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

So how did you add it?

[leinad]

QIcon icon(":Warning.gif");
customTabWidget_->setTabText(alertsTabIndex_, "* Alerts *"); //add the text
customTabWidget_->setTabIcon(alertsTabIndex_, icon); //add the icon

But how can I hide or remove it if I need to?

[jsulm]

@leinad said in Hide an Icon in a Tab:

But how can I hide or remove it if I need to?

Did you try to set a null icon if you want to hide the icon?

[leinad]

No, how would I do that?
QIcon icon(NULL);
customTabWidget_->setTabIcon(alertsTabIndex_, icon);

Would this work?

[Christian Ehrlicher]

QIcon(NULL) will not compile

Simply pass an empty QIcon() to setTabIcon()

[leinad]

Ok, let me try .

[leinad]

Works great! Thanks.