Close button only for some tabs in Qt

Question

I am using Qt for an assignment I have for college, and I want to use QTabWidget to display a chat window much like Pidgin\'s. I want to make the \"group chat\" tab

Answer 1

Hallo,

I guess this post won't help the author of this thread but perhaps someone else wanders over here.

In most cases a non-closable tab should not only ignore the closevent it also should not show a close symbol in its corner. A nice way to reach this is to modify the QTabBar which is inside the QTabWidget.

Example:

// let tabWidget be a QTabWidget with at least one page

QPushButton *closeButton = new QPushButton();
// set icon and size for PushButton, ... 
// connect Signal clicked() from closeButton with Slot closeCurrentTab(), ...

// next line sets closeButton in right corner on tab with index 0
tabWidget->tabBar()->setTabButton(0, QTabBar::RightSide, closeButton);