PyQt - QStackedWidget

Functioning of QStackedWidget is similar to QTabWidget. It also helps in the efficient use of window’s client area.

QStackedWidget provides a stack of widgets, only one of which can be viewed at a time. It is a useful layout built on top of QStackedLayout.

Example

A parent QStackedWidget object is populated with more than one child widget.

self.Stack = QStackedWidget (self)
self.stack1 = QWidget()
self.stack2 = QWidget()
self.stack3 = QWidget()

self.Stack.addWidget (self.stack1)
self.Stack.addWidget (self.stack2)
self.Stack.addWidget (self.stack3)

Each child widget can have its own layout of form elements. QStackedWidget on its own cannot switch between the pages. It is linked with the currently selected index of QListWidget.

self.leftlist = QListWidget ()
self.leftlist.insertItem (0, 'Contact' )
self.leftlist.insertItem (1, 'Personal' )
self.leftlist.insertItem (2, 'Educational' )
self.leftlist.currentRowChanged.connect(self.display)

Here, the currentRowChanged() signal of QListWidget is connected to display() function, which changes the view of stacked widget.

def display(self,i):
   self.Stack.setCurrentIndex(i)

The complete code is as follows −

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

class stackedExample(QWidget):

   def __init__(self):
      super(stackedExample, self).__init__()
		self.leftlist = QListWidget ()
      self.leftlist.insertItem (0, 'Contact' )
      self.leftlist.insertItem (1, 'Personal' )
      self.leftlist.insertItem (2, 'Educational' )
		
      self.stack1 = QWidget()
      self.stack2 = QWidget()
      self.stack3 = QWidget()
		
      self.stack1UI()
      self.stack2UI()
      self.stack3UI()
		
      self.Stack = QStackedWidget (self)
      self.Stack.addWidget (self.stack1)
      self.Stack.addWidget (self.stack2)
      self.Stack.addWidget (self.stack3)
		
      hbox = QHBoxLayout(self)
      hbox.addWidget(self.leftlist)
      hbox.addWidget(self.Stack)

      self.setLayout(hbox)
      self.leftlist.currentRowChanged.connect(self.display)
      self.setGeometry(300, 50, 10,10)
      self.setWindowTitle('StackedWidget demo')
      self.show()
		
   def stack1UI(self):
      layout = QFormLayout()
      layout.addRow("Name",QLineEdit())
      layout.addRow("Address",QLineEdit())
      #self.setTabText(0,"Contact Details")
      self.stack1.setLayout(layout)
		
   def stack2UI(self):
      layout = QFormLayout()
      sex = QHBoxLayout()
      sex.addWidget(QRadioButton("Male"))
      sex.addWidget(QRadioButton("Female"))
      layout.addRow(QLabel("Sex"),sex)
      layout.addRow("Date of Birth",QLineEdit())
		
      self.stack2.setLayout(layout)
		
   def stack3UI(self):
      layout = QHBoxLayout()
      layout.addWidget(QLabel("subjects"))
      layout.addWidget(QCheckBox("Physics"))
      layout.addWidget(QCheckBox("Maths"))
      self.stack3.setLayout(layout)
		
   def display(self,i):
      self.Stack.setCurrentIndex(i)
		
def main():
   app = QApplication(sys.argv)
   ex = stackedExample()
   sys.exit(app.exec_())
	
if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()

The above code produces the following output −