Can you add Auto Hide functionality?

[libaineu2004]

Can you add the function of automatically hiding and docking?
The following four states can be switched:
Float
Dock
Hide
Auto Hide

for example：Qt-Auto-Hide-DockWidget
https://github.com/anyox/Qt-Auto-Hide-DockWidget

[githubuser0xFFFF]

Could you please elaborate what is your use case for this kind of functionality?

[libaineu2004]

Could you please elaborate what is your use case for this kind of functionality?

Flexible and dockable widgets for Qt5, like Visual Studio 2017 user interface.
https://github.com/JackyDing/QtFlex5

[libaineu2004]

Could you please elaborate what is your use case for this kind of functionality?

Sometimes the computer screen is small, you need to hide part of the form, so that you can easily see the form of interest.

[githubuser0xFFFF]

Ok, I understand. You do not need this feature for yourself and you do not have an urgent need for this feature. You just think it would be nice to have it in the library.

I will check what I can do.

[libaineu2004]

Ok, I understand. You do not need this feature for yourself and you do not have an urgent need for this feature. You just think it would be nice to have it in the library.

I will check what I can do.

In fact, my need is to add an automatic hide button to the dockwidget. After the mouse clicks the button, the dockwidget will be hidden, and then there will be a sidebar toolbar on the left or right or bottom side. The toolbar has buttons. When this button is pressed After that, the dockwidget will be displayed again.

[gitatomic]

Was just about to ask for that feature exactly. I'm in the process of porting my project GitAtomic to Qt and this is simply a "must have" not just, nice to have. This is standard behavior.

[githubuser0xFFFF]

Ok, I think, I will try to implement this feature, but this will take some time (some weeks). If you need it urgently, you may try QTitanDocking. I think, they have this feature. Or you could donate 20$ or more via the donate button on the front page of this project, to indicate that this feature is really important and urgent for you and that you would like me to spend some spare time immediately to implement this feature for you.

Btw, what do you mean with "This is standard behaviour"?

[gitatomic]

Hi, Thank you for reply. Will donate 40$ with great pleasure as I believe we devs need to support each other (will do it after the COVID situation is finished).
As for standard behavior. What I meant by that is that in virtually every docking system you have the "hiding" of panels as a standard/expected feature. That's why for example QTitanDocking have it. As well as Visual Studio and others. Well, even QT Creator even though it doesn't have real docking system (really missed opportunity and great pity) yet it allows to hide its panels.

Once again, thank you for your reply and wish you good health in those strange times.

[Folling]

I second this proposal. It would be very nice to have. However, there could be an intermediate solution that should be a lot simpler to implement:
Dear ImGui allows you to hide the tab panel but leaves a small triangle at the top-left. Clicking that triangle re-shows the tab area.
It's a very simple and elegant solution to this problem, and could serve as a nice basis until more sophisticated solutions are in place.

[gitatomic]

@Folling I completely disagree with "so called" intermediate solution idea. From the experience I know that:
a) Time (even fraction of it) spent on that intermediate solution would be better spend on proper solution. There is no point in implementing something that would be in short time replaced. It simply a waste of time.
b) More often than not, those "intermediate solutions" become the "final solutions" and users suffer with that for years.

[libaineu2004]

I found a temporary solution, github has an open source project of golang IDE: https://github.com/visualfc/liteide
This project also implements DockWidget, the source files are as follows:
https://github.com/visualfc/liteide/tree/master/liteidex/src/liteapp/tooldockwidget.cpp
https://github.com/visualfc/liteide/tree/master/liteidex/src/liteapp/sidewindowstyle.cpp

But I hope Qt-Advanced-Docking-System can do better than it!
@githubuser0xFFFF
Looking forward to your good news!

[gitatomic]

@libaineu2004 Could you please explain how would that be a temporary solution? And to which/whos problem?

[libaineu2004]

@libaineu2004 Could you please explain how would that be a temporary solution? And to which/whos problem?

I mean https://github.com/visualfc/liteide, this project also has dockwidget. But I prefer to use
Qt-Advanced-Docking-System. I hope
Qt-Advanced-Docking-System improves the hiding and docking functions.

[githubuser0xFFFF]

I just checked LiteIDE and it is completely different from what you see in Visual Studio. In Visual Studio an Auto Hide Window is overlayed in layer above the normal docked Windows - so that means it does not change the docking layout. The LiteIDE behaviour is completely different.

I'm not going to implement a temprary solution. If I start implementing this feature, then it will be a final solution.

[gitatomic]

@githubuser0xFFFF Smart choice ;)

[gitatomic]

@githubuser0xFFFF Just to clarify on auto hide. In VS and GitAtomic (which I believe has it implemented the way it should be) if you hide a panel it will hide to the side it is docked to, not always above the window as you suggested in your last comment.

[githubuser0xFFFF]

Sorry, I used the wrong wording. With above I mean the Z order. That means the the auto hide widget is overlayed in a layer over the normal dock layout.

[gitatomic]

@githubuser0xFFFF Perfect!

[libaineu2004]

Yes. The Dockwidget of LiteIDE and Visual Studio are completely different.

Looking forward to your excellent work!@githubuser0xFFFF

[hs-apotell]

Is this feature in development? Anything we can do to prioritize it's delivery?

[githubuser0xFFFF]

The feature is under development in the autohide branch and it already has the highest priority.

[hs-apotell]

@githubuser0xFFFF Any update on this? It's nearly 7 months since the last comment on this issue. Is this still work in progress or is this work shelved?

[githubuser0xFFFF]

@hs-apotell The work is not shelved. I really would like to implement this feature and I already started work in the autohide branch. But it is no feature that is required by the product that I maintain in my job so it is a pure sparetime mission to implement this. So it is difficult to spend a lot of time on this feature. But I still hope that I can implement it in the near future.

[hs-apotell]

@githubuser0xFFFF Could you pen down some thoughts/approach on how you think this should be implemented. May be one of us can contribute the feature, with some guidance from your end.

[zjl955]

Is this feature in development? Looking forward to your results!

[githubuser0xFFFF]

At the moment I do not work on this feature so do not expect any results in the near future

[githubuser0xFFFF]

Added inittial implementation in branch https://github.com/githubuser0xFFFF/Qt-Advanced-Docking-System/tree/auto_hide_feature.

The branch was created based on the pull request #452

[githubuser0xFFFF]

I close the issue, because this feature is under active development