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qmdilib - library for manupulating menus/toolbars for Qt6

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This is a simple mdi library for Qt 6. The goal of this project, is to provide an easy way to modifying menus and toolbars of windows on demand. This can be used to present different menus and toolbars to widgets inside a QTabWidget, hiding or showing a different set of menus on demand or even enabling a small plugin system.

See the HTML manual available at the doc/html directory.

Usage

You can consume the code as a CMake library (git submodule is an option), and then include the library. You can also use CPM (the library will eventually be added to vcpkg and connan repos):

include(cmake/CPM.cmake)

# you probably don't need to build examples into your project
set(QMDILIB_BUILD_EXAMPLES off)
CPMAddPackage("gh:diegoiast/qmdlib#main")
add_executable(foo  ... )
target_link_libraries(foo PRIVATE qmdlib)

Then follow the exaple https://github.com/diegoiast/qmdilib/blob/main/demos/demo1/mainwindow.cpp on how to merge clients on/off by demand.

See https://github.com/diegoiast/qmdilib/blob/main/demos/demo2/mainwindow2.cpp for instrctions on adding different types of clients into a QTabWidget

The dessign of this library can be shown in this UML:

UML view

Config

A new feature added to this library, is a shared configuration with schema. Configuration is done per module (programmer defined), and you can query keys (values) from it. The user can choose to restore the configuration to the default values. UI for the configuration is done automatically (constructed from the schema provided).

See https://github.com/diegoiast/qmdilib/blob/main/demos/demo3/main3.cpp for such example. Full API usage can be see in the unit tests.

License

The license of this library is LGPL version 2 or 3 as you need.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank these people for helping me with the development of this library:

  • Nox PasNox pasnox@gmail.com for the patch for using QWorkspace as a mini qmdiServer when stored into a qmdiTabWidget (removed in Qt6)
  • Henry badinter fullmetalcoder@hotmail.fr for many suggestion in the internal interfaces of qmdilib and his ediuk application which uses qmdilib for many of it's internal interfaces