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# Advanced Docking System for Qt
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[](https://travis-ci.org/githubuser0xFFFF/Qt-Advanced-Docking-System)
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[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/githubuser0xFFFF/qt-advanced-docking-system/branch/master)
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[](gnu-lgpl-v2.1.md)
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Qt Advanced Docking System lets you create customizable layouts using a full
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featured window docking system similar to what is found in many popular
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integrated development environements (IDEs) such as Visual Studio.
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Everything is implemented with standard Qt functionality without any
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platform specific code. Basic usage of QWidgets and QLayouts and using basic
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styles as much as possible.
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This work is based on and inspired by the
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[Advanced Docking System for Qt](https://github.com/mfreiholz/Qt-Advanced-Docking-System)
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from Manuel Freiholz. I did an almost complete rewrite of his code to improve
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code quality, readibility and to fix all issues from the issue tracker
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of his docking system project.
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The following video gives a first impression what is possible with the Advanced Docking System for Qt.
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[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pdNfafg3Qc)
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## Features
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### Docking everywhere - no central widget
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There is no central widget like in the Qt docking system. You can dock on every
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border of the main window or you can dock into each dock area - so you are
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free to dock almost everywhere.
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### Docking inside floating windows
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There is no difference between the main window and a floating window. Docking
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into floating windows is supported.
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### Grouped dragging
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When dragging the titlebar of a dock, all the tabs that are tabbed with it are
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going to be dragged. So you can move complete groups of tabbed widgets into
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a floating widget or from one dock area to another one.
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### Perspectives for fast switching of the complete main window layout
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A perspective defines the set and layout of dock windows in the main
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window. You can save the current layout of the dockmanager into a named
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perspective to make your own custom perspective. Later you can simply
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select a perspective from the perspective list to quickly switch the complete
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main window layout.
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## Tested Compatible Environments
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### Windows
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Windows 10 [](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/githubuser0xFFFF/qt-advanced-docking-system/branch/master)
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The library was developed on and for Windows. It is used in a commercial Windows application and is therefore constantly tested.
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### macOS
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macOS [](https://travis-ci.org/githubuser0xFFFF/Qt-Advanced-Docking-System)
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The application can be compiled for macOS. A user reported, that the library works on macOS. If have not tested it.
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### Linux
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Ubuntu [](https://travis-ci.org/githubuser0xFFFF/Qt-Advanced-Docking-System)
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The application can be compiled for Linux and has been developed and tested with **Kubuntu 18.04**.
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## Build
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Open the `ads.pro` with QtCreator and start the build, that's it.
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You can run the demo project and test it yourself.
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## Getting started / Example
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The following example shows the minimum code required to use the advanced Qt docking system.
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*MainWindow.h*
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```cpp
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#include <QMainWindow>
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#include "DockManager.h"
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namespace Ui {
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class MainWindow;
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}
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class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
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Q_OBJECT
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public:
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explicit MainWindow(QWidget *parent = 0);
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~MainWindow();
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private:
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Ui::MainWindow *ui;
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// The main container for docking
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ads::CDockManager* m_DockManager;
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};
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```
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*MainWindow.cpp*
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```cpp
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#include "MainWindow.h"
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#include "ui_MainWindow.h"
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#include <QLabel>
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MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
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QMainWindow(parent),
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ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
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{
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ui->setupUi(this);
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// Create the dock manager. Because the parent parameter is a QMainWindow
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// the dock manager registers itself as the central widget.
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m_DockManager = new ads::CDockManager(this);
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// Create example content label - this can be any application specific
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// widget
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QLabel* l = new QLabel();
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l->setWordWrap(true);
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l->setAlignment(Qt::AlignTop | Qt::AlignLeft);
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l->setText("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. ");
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// Create a dock widget with the title Label 1 and set the created label
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// as the dock widget content
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ads::CDockWidget* DockWidget = new ads::CDockWidget("Label 1");
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DockWidget->setWidget(l);
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// Add the toggleViewAction of the dock widget to the menu to give
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// the user the possibility to show the dock widget if it has been closed
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ui->menuView->addAction(DockWidget->toggleViewAction());
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// Add the dock widget to the top dock widget area
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m_DockManager->addDockWidget(ads::TopDockWidgetArea, DockWidget);
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}
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MainWindow::~MainWindow()
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{
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delete ui;
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}
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```
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## Developers
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- Uwe Kindler, Project Maintainer
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- Manuel Freiholz
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## License information
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[](gnu-lgpl-v2.1.md)
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This project uses the [LGPLv2.1 license](gnu-lgpl-v2.1.md)
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## Alternative Docking System Implementations
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If this Qt Advanced Docking System does not fit to your needs you may consider some of the alternative docking system solutions for Qt.
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### KDDockWidgets
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This is an advanced docking framework for Qt from [KDAB](https://www.kdab.com/). The interesting thing is, that they separated GUI code from logic, so they can easily provide a QtQuick backend in the future.
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- [Blog post about KDDockWidgets](https://www.kdab.com/kddockwidgets/)
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- [GitHub project](https://github.com/KDAB/KDDockWidgets)
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### QtitanDocking
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This is a commercial component from [Developer Machines](https://www.devmachines.com/) for Qt Framework that allows to create a Microsoft like dockable user interface. They also offer a lot of other interesting and useful components for Qt.
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- [Product page](https://www.devmachines.com/qtitandocking-overview.html)
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