Creating tabs

Tabs allow you to condense the information from several screens into a relatively small place. Tabs provide titles at the top of the window, which present an individual widget layout for each title when clicked. In this recipe, we'll create a simple tabbed interface.

Getting ready

Open the QGIS Python console by selecting the Plugins menu and then clicking on Python Console.

How to do it...

We will create an overarching tab widget. Then, we'll create three generic widgets to represent our tabs. We'll set up layouts with three different GUI widgets and assign each layout to our tab widgets. Finally, we'll add our tabs to the tab widget and display it. To do this, we need to perform the following steps:

1. First, we need to import the GUI and QGIS core libraries:

           from PyQt4.QtCore import * 
           from PyQt4.QtGui import * 
   

2. Next, we create our tab and configure its title and size:

           qtw = QTabWidget() 
           qtw.setWindowTitle("PyQGIS Tab...