Can I have horizontal west-sided tabs ?

GAlbert

Hello !

I am currently trying to design my app and I have been using the QTabWidget since it felt like it was the easiest way to adapt for my use case.

The only thing I kinda dont like is the way QtDesign allows me to place my tabs.

QtDesign puts the tabs as in case 1 on the image, meanwhile I think it would look better like case 2.

Is there a way to do it using QSS or QtDesign studio ?

Christian Ehrlicher

Not that I am aware of but it might be worth a feature request.

GAlbert

@Christian-Ehrlicher Oh.. alright... I might do the feature request but until then, how could I achieve this functionality, without the tab widget ?

Henning G

This isn't the place to ask questions about QtDesigner which deals with QWidgets. This channel/forum is about Qt Design Studio which uses QML/QtQuick. Have a read about what the difference is here https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtdesigner-manual.html

You might get more answers on your question in a different channel/forum.

This is about Qt tools which includes QtCreator and it's QtDesigner https://forum.qt.io/category/13/tools

Depending on your coding skills you could also ask in general, because what you want get potentially be achieved without QtDesigner involved.

SGaist

@Henning-G thread moved

GAlbert

Oh, my bad, I thought it was about design in general, not just the tool, will know for next time 😅

SimonSchroeder

@GAlbert said in Can I have horizontal west-sided tabs ?:

until then, how could I achieve this functionality, without the tab widget ?

I am not sure if there is some setting for the tab widget to change the behavior. However, you could use buttons in a vertical layout (without any margins) on the left and a QStackedWidget for the right portion. The buttons would then toggle the different pages of the stacked widget. Some additional styling on the buttons and nobody will know the difference.

JoeCFD

@GAlbert maybe you can try to customize Tab Bar if you use qtabwidget