Q3DockArea Class Reference
[Qt3Support module]

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Q3DockArea uses the concept of lines. A line is a horizontal region which may contain dock windows side-by-side. A dock area may have room for more than one line. When dock windows are docked into a dock area they are usually added at the right hand side of the top-most line that has room (unless manually placed by the user). When users move dock windows they may leave empty lines or gaps in non-empty lines. Qt::Dock windows can be lined up to minimize wasted space using the lineUp() function.

The Q3DockArea class maintains a position list of all its child dock windows. Qt::Dock windows are added to a dock area from position 0 onwards. Qt::Dock windows are laid out sequentially in position order from left to right, and in the case of multiple lines of dock windows, from top to bottom. If a dock window is floated it still retains its position since this is where the window will return if the user double clicks its caption. A dock window's position can be determined with hasDockWindow(). The position can be changed with moveDockWindow().

To dock or undock a dock window use Q3DockWindow::dock() and Q3DockWindow::undock() respectively. If you want to control which dock windows can dock in a dock area use setAcceptDockWindow(). To see if a dock area contains a particular dock window use hasDockWindow(); to see how many dock windows a dock area contains use count().

The streaming operators can write the positions of the dock windows in the dock area to a QTextStream. The positions can be read back later to restore the saved positions.

Save the positions to a QTextStream:

 ts << *myDockArea;

Restore the positions from a QTextStream:

 ts >> *myDockArea;

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