Qt: how to force QTabBar to fill whole layout?

Question

I have a custom QTabWidget which holds a custom QTabBar. I want to expand the area of the QTabBar (the red area) all the way to the right side of the window without enlarging the tabs themselves.

I have already tried settings the QTabBar's horizontal size policy to QSizePolicy::Ignored or QSizePolicy::Expanding, but these do nothing. It seems like the QTabBar is being constrained by the QTabWidget, but I don't know why or how to work around this.

edit:

I want the tab bar to take up the green area in addition to the red area. I am trying to implement drag&drop tabs - I need the QTabBar to take up all of the horizontal space so tabs can be dragged at the end of it.

Currently, my custom TabBar is just a standard QTabBar with the drag&drop events caught.

aalimian aalimian · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-23T02:56:48

There is no straightforward way to do this. There is QTabBar::setExpanding(), but I just tried and it didn't work.

I did see however QTabBar::setMinimumWidth() and you can effectively use this method to achieve your desired behavior. Here's roughly how your code will look like:

class MyTabWidget : public QTabWidget {
    Q_OBJECT
protected:
    void showEvent(QShowEvent *event) {
        tabBar()->setMinimumWidth(size().width() / tabBar()->count());
        QTabWidget::showEvent(event);
    }
}

Qt: how to force QTabBar to fill whole layout?

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