Customizing Notebook Tabs

The tabs of a notebook can be customized in many different ways:

• Setting the Position of Tabs

• Setting the Orientation of Tabs

• Setting the Tabs Margins

• Setting the Page Margins

Setting the Position of Tabs

The tabs of a notebook can be displayed on any of its borders (top, bottom, left, or right). You can change the position of the tabs with the member function setTabsPosition and retrieve this position with getTabsPosition.

Setting the Orientation of Tabs

Within the tab, the label can be drawn horizontally or vertically. You can change the orientation of the labels with the member function setLabelsVertical. To know whether the label are horizontal or vertical, use areLabelsVertical.

When the tab labels are oriented vertically, the label can be written from top to bottom, or from bottom to top.

A Notebook with Vertical Tabs

A label that is written from bottom to top is said to be flipped. To change the way vertical labels are drawn, use these member functions mustFlipLabels and flipLabels.

Setting the Tabs Margins

You can change the margin between the border of the tab and its label with these member functions: getXMargin, setXMargin, getYMargin, and setYMargin.

Tab Margins (x and y)

Setting the Page Margins

You can also change the margins between the border of the notebook and its page view. The value returned by the member function getPageArea depends on the values set for the page margins.

Following are the member functions for setting the page margins: setPageTopMargin, setPageBottomMargin, setPageLeftMargin, setPageRightMargin. You can retrieve the margins set with the corresponding get member functions.

Page Margins