Focusing on a tabified QDockWidget in PyQt

qt pyqt pyqt4
brianz picture brianz · Aug 18, 2009 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

I have three QDockWidgets which are tabbed at startup using QMainWindow.tabifyDockWidget.

In the main window, after all of the addDockWidget calls:

self.tabifyDockWidget(self.dock_widget1, self.dock_widget2)
self.tabifyDockWidget(self.dock_widget1, self.dock_widget3)

Based on certain actions, I'd like to select one of these tabs and bring it to focus, or, on top of the other two, if it's not already visible. I've tried using setVisible and setWindowState(Qt.WindowActive), but nothing changes.

Is there a way to programmatically select a tabbed dock widget and bring it to the front?

Answer

brianz picture brianz · Aug 19, 2009

Thanks to an answer on the qt-interest mailing list, this is very simple to do with QWidget.raise():

http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qwidget.html#raise

In PyQt, it's QWidget.raise_():

http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/qwidget.html#raise

Related questions

Clear all widgets in a layout in pyqt

Is there a way to clear (delete) all the widgets in a layout? self.plot_layout = QtGui.QGridLayout() self.plot_layout.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(200,200,200,200)) self.root_layout.addLayout(self.plot_layout) self.plot_layout.addWidget(MyWidget()) Now I want to …

Read More
QWidget resize signal?

I want to take an action when a widget was resized. Is there a way to catch that without installing an event filter on that widget (and, obviously, without subclassing it)? AFAIK, QWidget does not have a resized signal.

Read More
Python - PyQT4 how to detect the mouse click position anywhere in the window?

I have 1024x768 resolution window, when there is a click or mouse over, i want to find the x, y values. How can i do that? import sys from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore class Example(QtGui.QWidget): def __init__(self): …

Read More