In this article we will see how we add/set multiple widgets to the QDockWidget. QDockWidget provides the concept of dock widgets, also know as tool palettes or utility windows. Dock windows are secondary windows placed in the dock widget area around the central widget in a QMainWindow(original window). We use setWidget method to add/set widget to the dock widget. But this is used to set only single widget.
In order to set multiple widgets inside it we have to do the following
1. Create a Main Window Class
2. Inside the class create a QDockWidget object and set its properties
3. Create a QWidget object
4. Create a QLayout object
5. Create various widget object which we want to add in the QDockWidget
6. Add these widgets to the layout created earlier with the help of addWidget method
7. Set this layout to the QWidget object with the help of setLayout method
8. Set this QWidget object to the QDockWidget object with the help of setWidget method
Below is the implementation
# importing libraries from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui
from PyQt5.QtGui import *
from PyQt5.QtCore import *
import sys
class Window(QMainWindow):
def __init__( self ):
super ().__init__()
# setting title
self .setWindowTitle( "Python " )
# setting geometry
self .setGeometry( 100 , 100 , 500 , 400 )
# calling method
self .UiComponents()
# showing all the widgets
self .show()
# method for components
def UiComponents( self ):
# creating dock widget
dock = QDockWidget( self )
# setting title to the dock widget
dock.setWindowTitle( "GfG " )
# creating a QWidget object
widget = QWidget( self )
# creating a vertical box layout
layout = QVBoxLayout( self )
# push button 1
push1 = QPushButton( "A" , self )
# push button 2
push2 = QPushButton( "B" , self )
# push button 3
push3 = QPushButton( "C" , self )
# adding these buttons to the layout
layout.addWidget(push1)
layout.addWidget(push2)
layout.addWidget(push3)
# setting the layout to the widget
widget.setLayout(layout)
# adding widget to the layout
dock.setWidget(widget)
# creating a label
label = QLabel( "GeeksforGeeks" , self )
# setting geometry to the label
label.setGeometry( 100 , 200 , 300 , 80 )
# making label multi line
label.setWordWrap( True )
# setting geometry tot he dock widget
dock.setGeometry( 100 , 0 , 200 , 30 )
# create pyqt5 app App = QApplication(sys.argv)
# create the instance of our Window window = Window()
# start the app sys.exit(App. exec ())
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