What's the best way for doing this?
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Hello. Look at this form:
Imagine that's a fully working form, whose class is MainWindow, with everything encapsulated inside.
Now, let's say I need another identical form but for a distinct entity (i.e., another instance of MainWindow).
I create the new instance with some different properties set (identifying the new entity), so another window is shown with distinct data, etc.
I could group many forms this way inside a MDI window.
But what if I want each form content tabbed in a normal, parent window? Just imagine the full MainWindow contents (the client area) in one tab, another MainWindow instance contents in another tab, etc.
Is that possible and how?
Thanks for reading.
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Hi,
You can have as many QMainWindow as you want however it's rather unusual to have more than one.
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@SGaist You are not following me.
Look at this:
.See how the contents of each "Entity" tab contain what was in the original MainWindow?
The class is basically ready. How do I put an instance of that in each Entity tab? I know it's a weird, probably stupid question, though.
BTW, it's named MainWindow but it could be any window with an associated class.
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So you want each Entity widget in a QTabWidget ?
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@SGaist If by "Entity widget" you mean whatever is inside the current MainWindow form/class, then yes.
How do I do that? I could probably do this programmatically (by inserting the widgets, etc.) but the idea is, one, using the already finished MainWindow class (that can be named something else, you know); and two, still being able to use the form editor to modify elements in that form.