QTabWidget tabs on the vertical, but text in horizontal

Question

I'm trying to make an app in C++ Qt with a sidebar like this one:

But when making QTabWidget's orientation to West, it makes the text vertical. How to have the text on the left, but horizontally-aligned? Ps: I don't need icons. Thanks in advance.

Kerns

Answer 1

You can use QListWidget to show the "tabs" (with some mods to make it look like you want) and QStackedWidget to handle switching between pages like normal tab widget does.

Silvas

I did tried the QListWidget approach, but how do I make it look like that? Stylesheets? I don't see as much customizing power there... – Imbalance

If you don't need icons, what do you need to customize? Remove borders and change background and make a highlight gradient? That should be doable with stylesheets. – Silvas

I solved it with the following stylesheet: pastebin.com/6UqpixtQ, many thanks to you! – Imbalance

Is the solution available somewhere else? pastebin has removed it , as it it is too old now. – Misusage

it would be nice to get stylesheet from somewhere?? – Mayest

Answer 2

A bit of "advertising" for a WTFPL implementation here on assembla Any contribution will be much appreciated.

Sigma

Answer 3

use QProxyStyle, this function will rotate 180 for text, and you can rotate 90。

void MyProxyStyle::drawItemText( QPainter* painter,
                                 const QRect&,
                                 int alignment,
                                 const QPalette& palette,
                                 bool enabled,
                                 const QString& text,
                                 QPalette::ColorRole textRole ) const
{
    painter->save();
    painter->translate(160,50);
    painter->rotate(-180);

    QCommonStyle::drawItemText( painter,
                                rectangle,
                                alignment,
                                palette,
                                enabled,
                                text,
                                textRole );

    painter->restore();
}

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