Close button only for some tabs in Qt

Question

I am using Qt for an assignment I have for college, and I want to use QTabWidget to display a chat window much like Pidgin\'s. I want to make the \"group chat\" tab

Answer 1

I guess you can handle the tabCloseRequest signal and decide whether u'll close a given tab or not

http://doc.qt.io/archives/4.6/qtabwidget.html#tabCloseRequested

Edit: I created a small example to check it out. My example is a simple QtGui application with a mainwindow that has a tabwidget. I then added the tabCloseRequested slot. Here is the code

void MainWindow::on_tabWidget_tabCloseRequested(int index)
{
   if(someCondition){
       return;
   } else if(anotherCondition){
       ui->tabWidget->removeTab(index);
   }
}

From this example only tabs where the condition doesn't apply will be closed.