I am about to create a navigation bar in qt designer, but I am not completely sure how to accomplish this. My first thought is to create 3x Windows, with three buttons on top called General, Delivery, and Payment. Then whenever I click on one of the buttons, I will be directed to the other window. Is that the 'correct' way of creating a navigation bar in qt designer?
Another thought I was to create 1x window, but three different frames, so that it would only change a frame when button is clicked, and not the whole window itself. Unfortunately, I am completely lost in how to do so.
An example of the layout:
One possible solution is to use a modified QTabWidget and create custom pages:
from functools import cached_property
import sys
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
class Page(QtWidgets.QWidget):
completeChanged = QtCore.pyqtSignal()
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super().__init__(parent)
lay = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout(self)
lay.addWidget(self.container)
lay.addWidget(self.button, alignment=QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter)
self.button.clicked.connect(self.handle_clicked)
@cached_property
def container(self):
return QtWidgets.QWidget()
@cached_property
def button(self):
return QtWidgets.QPushButton("Save")
def handle_clicked(self):
if self.validate():
self.completeChanged.emit()
def validate(self):
# Override this method if you want to validate the entries,
# if it returns True then it will go to the next page,
# otherwise it will not move from the page
return True
class TabWizard(QtWidgets.QTabWidget):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super().__init__(parent)
self.tabBar().installEventFilter(self)
def eventFilter(self, obj, event):
if obj is self.tabBar() and event.type() == QtCore.QEvent.MouseButtonPress:
return True
return super().eventFilter(obj, event)
def addPage(self, page, title):
if not isinstance(page, Page):
raise TypeError(f"{page} must be Page object")
self.addTab(page, title)
page.completeChanged.connect(self.nextPage)
def nextPage(self):
next_index = self.currentIndex() + 1
if next_index < self.count():
self.setCurrentIndex(next_index)
class Page1(Page):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super().__init__(parent)
lay = QtWidgets.QFormLayout(self.container)
lay.addRow("Foo1", QtWidgets.QLineEdit())
lay.addRow("Bar1", QtWidgets.QLineEdit())
class Page2(Page):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super().__init__(parent)
lay = QtWidgets.QFormLayout(self.container)
lay.addRow("Foo2", QtWidgets.QLineEdit())
lay.addRow("Bar2", QtWidgets.QLineEdit())
class Widget(QtWidgets.QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
tabwizard = TabWizard()
lay = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout(self)
lay.addWidget(tabwizard)
tabwizard.addPage(Page1(), "page1")
tabwizard.addPage(Page2(), "page2")
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
w = Widget()
w.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())