Slicer3:UIDesign:WorkingProblems:SlicerFlexibleLayout:UXP3

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Adding multiple tabs to a Slicer application window

• Challenge: Will be useful to specify and switch among multiple tabs in the main application window.
  • Each tab can display a layout, and that layout may include multiple views, multiple module guis, etc.
• Displaying multiple module guis at once requires each module UI to contain module select/navigate controls.
• Need controls for adding a tab, deleting current tab.
• Slicer starts up: first time user sees welcome module in a single tab.
• Slicer starts up: returning user sees their tabs from last session restored.

Open questions

• What is the desired behavior when user selects a module from the toolbar?
  • switch the currently raised tab's GUI.
• What happens when user selects "+" to add a new tab?
  • new tab is added with same layout as previously raised tab.
  • what module is selected -- home? none?
• What happens if the layout contains multiple GUI panels and user selects a new module from the toolbar?
  • new module GUI replaces last module GUI to be touched

Default layout at startup

Annotations of modifications to main application layout to accommodate tabs (and multiple module GUIs)

Adding a new tab

Adding a tab with a user-specified custom layout containing multiple module GUIs.