Accessing the QTabBar instance

Question

How can I get access to the QTabBar of a QTabWidget?

The only solution I've found is to subclass QTabWidget and override the protected QTabWidget::getTabBar() as public. Is there any other way of doing this?

Answer 1

tabBar->findChild<QTabBar *>(QLatin1String("qt_tabwidget_tabbar"));

Answer 2

As you mentioned, subclassing is the proper solution since it is protected. Something like this:

class TabWidget : public QTabWidget {
public:
    TabWidget(QWidget *p = 0) : QTabWidget(p){}

public:
    QTabBar *tabBar() const { return QTabWidget::tabBar(); }
};

You can tell designer to "promote" your QTabWiget to a TabWidget then you will have an accessible tabBar() function.