Switching between information widgets using buttons
I am creating a main window with PyQT for the automation of a room full of equipment. I would like the window to have a lateral screen which shows general parameters of all the equipment but, when I click a button related to one particular device, this lateral screen would show its particular configurations (like the temperature of a fridge, for example), very much like PyQT's own property editor.
Does anyone knows which widget should I use for this lateral window and how could I link it to other buttons to make it show different information according to the selected equipment? The closest I got to it is the tab widget, but it isn't exactly what I want yet, as I can't put a button that selects the right tab anywhere I want on the screen.
I hope my question is clear.
added mockup images to try and make it clear. The first image shows the lateral menu (as I want it to be) for a room with coffee machine, lamp, deadly laser, and fridge as equipments. As I click one of the buttons, say, the Deadly Laser one, the lateral menu would change to what is shown in the second image: the particular configurations of the laser. And so on for the fridge, the lamp, the coffee machine, etc.
I suggest you use a QStackedWidget for the lateral widget. Then put the buttons in a QButtonGroup, using the relevant page-index of the stacked-widget for each button id. You can then connect the buttongroup.idClicked signal to the stackedwidget.setCurrentIndex slot, to switch between the pages of your lateral widget.