PyQt5 QDockWidget – Getting its widget

In this article we will see how we can get widget of the QDockWidget. QDockWidget provides the concept of dock widgets, also known as tool palettes or utility windows. Dock windows are secondary windows placed in the dock widget area around the central widget in a QMainWindow(original window).
We can add widget to the dock widget with the help of setWidget method, widget can any widget or even a single widget that contains many small child widgets. Along with dock widget the widget set to it also moves with it. By default no widget is set to the dock.

In order to do this we will use widget method with the dock widget object.

Syntax : dock.widget()

Argument : It takes no argument

Return : It returns QWidget

Below is the implementation

# importing libraries
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui
from PyQt5.QtGui import *
from PyQt5.QtCore import *
import sys


class Window(QMainWindow):

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

        # setting title
        self.setWindowTitle("Python ")

        # setting geometry
        self.setGeometry(100, 100, 500, 400)

        # calling method
        self.UiComponents()

        # showing all the widgets
        self.show()

    # method for components
    def UiComponents(self):

        # creating dock widget
        dock = QDockWidget("GeeksforGeeks", self)

        # push button
        push = QPushButton("Press", self)

        # setting widget to the dock
        dock.setWidget(push)

        # setting geometry tot he dock widget
        dock.setGeometry(100, 0, 200, 30)


        # creating a label
        label = QLabel("GeeksforGeeks", self)

        # setting geometry to the label
        label.setGeometry(100, 200, 300, 80)

        # making label multi line
        label.setWordWrap(True)

        # getting widget of the dock
        value = dock.widget()

        # setting text to the label
        label.setText("Widget : " + str(value))





# create pyqt5 app
App = QApplication(sys.argv)

# create the instance of our Window
window = Window()

# start the app
sys.exit(App.exec())

Output :