DefaultTabController class

The TabController for descendant widgets that don't specify one explicitly.

DefaultTabController is an inherited widget that is used to share a TabController with a TabBar or a TabBarView. It's used when sharing an explicitly created TabController isn't convenient because the tab bar widgets are created by a stateless parent widget or by different parent widgets.

class MyDemo extends StatelessWidget {
  final List<Tab> myTabs = <Tab>[
    Tab(text: 'LEFT'),
    Tab(text: 'RIGHT'),
  ];

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return DefaultTabController(
      length: myTabs.length,
      child: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          bottom: TabBar(
            tabs: myTabs,
          ),
        ),
        body: TabBarView(
          children: myTabs.map((Tab tab) {
            return Center(child: Text(tab.text));
          }).toList(),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}
Inheritance

Constructors

DefaultTabController({Key key, @required int length, int initialIndex: 0, @required Widget child })
Creates a default tab controller for the given child widget. [...]
const

Properties

child → Widget
The widget below this widget in the tree. [...]
final
initialIndex → int
The initial index of the selected tab. [...]
final
length → int
The total number of tabs. Typically greater than one.
final
hashCode → int
The hash code for this object. [...]
read-only, inherited
key → Key
Controls how one widget replaces another widget in the tree. [...]
final, inherited
runtimeType → Type
A representation of the runtime type of the object.
read-only, inherited

Methods

createState() → _DefaultTabControllerState
Creates the mutable state for this widget at a given location in the tree. [...]
override
createElement() → StatefulElement
Creates a StatefulElement to manage this widget's location in the tree. [...]
inherited
debugDescribeChildren() → List<DiagnosticsNode>
Returns a list of DiagnosticsNode objects describing this node's children. [...]
@protected, inherited
debugFillProperties(DiagnosticPropertiesBuilder properties) → void
Add additional properties associated with the node. [...]
inherited
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic
Invoked when a non-existent method or property is accessed. [...]
inherited
toDiagnosticsNode({String name, DiagnosticsTreeStyle style }) → DiagnosticsNode
Returns a debug representation of the object that is used by debugging tools and by toStringDeep. [...]
inherited
toString({DiagnosticLevel minLevel: DiagnosticLevel.debug }) → String
Returns a string representation of this object.
inherited
toStringDeep({String prefixLineOne: '', String prefixOtherLines, DiagnosticLevel minLevel: DiagnosticLevel.debug }) → String
Returns a string representation of this node and its descendants. [...]
inherited
toStringShallow({String joiner: ', ', DiagnosticLevel minLevel: DiagnosticLevel.debug }) → String
Returns a one-line detailed description of the object. [...]
inherited
toStringShort() → String
A short, textual description of this widget.
inherited

Operators

operator ==(dynamic other) → bool
The equality operator. [...]
inherited

Static Methods

of(BuildContext context) → TabController
The closest instance of this class that encloses the given context. [...]