Custom Tabs¶

class UI4.Tabs.BaseTab(parent, flags=0)¶

Bases: UI4.Widgets.BaseWidgets.BaseFrame

Base class for all UI tabs.

Inherits from BaseFrame to provide handling of custom callbacks for actions and key events that are associated with user-defined keyboard shortcuts, and provides functions for storing and restoring settings per tab when loading and saving tab layouts.

__init__(parent, flags=0)¶

Initializes an instance of the class.

Parameters:	parent (QtWidgets.QWidget or None) – The parent widget to own the new instance. Passed verbatim to the base class initializer. flags (QtCore.Qt.WindowFlags) – The window flags to use in case no parent is given. Passed verbatim to the base class initializer.

applySettings(settings)¶

Applies the given settings to the tab.

Is called when creating a tab of the type represented by a class derived from BaseTab.

Parameters:	settings (dict) – A dictionary of settings to apply to this tab.
Note:	The default implementation does nothing.

closeEvent(event)¶

This event handler is called with the given event when the tab receives a window close request. A signal is emitted when the tab gets closed which would then a child widget could pick up to unregister any of its registered event handlers.

Parameters:	event (QtGui.QCloseEvent) – Event sent to widgets that the user wants to close.

getMenuBar()¶

Return type:	QtWidgets.QMenuBar or None
Returns:	The tab’s menu bar, or None if the tab does not provide a menu bar.

getSettings()¶

Return type:	dict
Returns:	A dictionary of settings that should be stored and restored as part of a tab layout.
Note:	The default implementation returns an empty dictionary.

tabClosed¶