Docking Tabs Programmatically

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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I’m trying to achieve the following behavior in Slate to extend the Unreal Editor.

  1. Open a tab in its own window
  2. Open a second tab and dock it to the right of the first tab

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Every time you open a new tab it docks to the far right of the first tab. Except for the first tab, every new tab is only known at runtime.

I’m using FGlobalTabmanager::Get()->RegisterTabSpawner to create the new tabs.

After some digging, when a tab is redocked FTabManager::OnTabRelocated is called but this method is protected so I can’t call it directly. I though of inheriting from FGlobalTabmanager but it won’t work because I need to work on the existing instance.

Anyone knows what’s the correct way to achieve this.

Thank you
Robert