QStackedLayout Class Reference
[QtGui module]

Detailed Description

The QStackedLayout class provides a stack of widgets where only one widget is visible at a time.

QStackedLayout can be used to create a user interface similar to the one provided by QTabWidget. There is also a convenience QStackedWidget class built on top of QStackedLayout.

A QStackedLayout can be populated with a number of child widgets ("pages"). For example:

     QWidget *firstPageWidget = new QWidget;
     QWidget *secondPageWidget = new QWidget;
     QWidget *thirdPageWidget = new QWidget;

     QStackedLayout *stackedLayout = new QStackedLayout;
     stackedLayout->addWidget(firstPageWidget);
     stackedLayout->addWidget(secondPageWidget);
     stackedLayout->addWidget(thirdPageWidget);


     QVBoxLayout *mainLayout = new QVBoxLayout;
     mainLayout->addLayout(stackedLayout);
     setLayout(mainLayout);

QStackedLayout provides no intrinsic means for the user to switch page. This is typically done through a QComboBox or a QListWidget that stores the titles of the QStackedLayout's pages. For example:

     QComboBox *pageComboBox = new QComboBox;
     pageComboBox->addItem(tr("Page 1"));
     pageComboBox->addItem(tr("Page 2"));
     pageComboBox->addItem(tr("Page 3"));
     connect(pageComboBox, SIGNAL(activated(int)),
             stackedLayout, SLOT(setCurrentIndex(int)));

When populating a layout, the widgets are added to an internal list. The indexOf() function returns the index of a widget in that list. The widgets can either be added to the end of the list using the addWidget() function, or inserted at a given index using the insertWidget() function. The removeWidget() function removes the widget at the given index from the layout. The number of widgets contained in the layout, can be obtained using the count() function.

The widget() function returns the widget at a given index position. The index of the widget that is shown on screen is given by currentIndex() and can be changed using setCurrentIndex(). In a similar manner, the currently shown widget can be retrieved using the currentWidget() function, and altered using the setCurrentWidget() function.

Whenever the current widget in the layout changes or a widget is removed from the layout, the currentChanged() and widgetRemoved() signals are emitted respectively.

See also QStackedWidget and QTabWidget.

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