Qt-Advanced-Docking-System/doc/user-guide.md

User Guide

Configuration Flags

The Advanced Docking System has a number of global configuration options to configure the design and the functionality of the docking system. Each configuration will be explained in detail in the following sections.

Setting Configuration Flags

You should set the configuration flags before you create the dock manager instance. That means, setting the configurations flags is the first thing you do, if you use the library.

CDockManager::setConfigFlags(CDockManager::DefaultOpaqueConfig);
CDockManager::setConfigFlag(CDockManager::RetainTabSizeWhenCloseButtonHidden, true);
...
d->DockManager = new CDockManager(this);

If you set the configurations flags, you can set individual flags using the function CDockManager::setConfigFlag or you can set all flags using the function CDockManager::setConfigFlags. Instead of settings all flags individualy, it is better to pick a predefined set of configuration flags and then modify individual flags. The following predefined configurations are avilable

• DefaultNonOpaqueConfig - uses non opaque splitter resizing and non opaque docking
• DefaultOpaqueConfig - uses opaque splitter resizing and opaque docking

Pick one of those predefined configurations and then modify the following configurations flags to adjust the docking system to your needs.

ActiveTabHasCloseButton

If this flag is set (default configuration), the active tab in a tab area has a close button.

If this flag is cleared, the active tab has no close button. You can combine this with the flag DockAreaCloseButtonClosesTab to use the close button of the dock are to close the single tabs.

DockAreaHasCloseButton

If the flag is set (default configuration) each dock area has a close button.

If this flag is cleared, dock areas do not have a close button.