Internal QWidgets of QTabBar's tab?

Question

As a follow up of \" Hide label text for Qt tabs without setting text to empty string \" :

Can I directly access the widgets within the tabs of the QTabBar

Answer 1

QTabBar header sections are not actually widgets. They are drawn by QStylePainter inside QTabBar::paintEvent. Thus you can't get access to them. As a workaround you can add a tab with an empty text and set a custom widget to it:

QTabBar *bar = new QTabBar;
bar->addTab("");

QLabel *label = new QLabel("my label");
bar->setTabButton(0, QTabBar::LeftSide, label);