Siblings on top of QGLWidget

basil_fawlty

According to the Qt documentation siblings on top of QGLWidget are not supported on mac.

bq. On Mac OS X, when Qt is built with Cocoa support, a QGLWidget can't have any sibling widgets placed ontop of itself. This is due to limitations in the Cocoa API and is not supported by Apple. ("here":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qglwidget.html)

As you can see in the quote it says: On Mac OS X, when Qt is built with Cocoa support...

So, is there a possibility turning the Cocoa support off? I mean, from this sentence I understand, that it might be possible.

It would be such a great help if I could place siblings on top of my QGLWidget...

Thanks...

kkoehne

Sure, you can compile Qt for carbon: configure -carbon ... . Note however that this is not as well supported any more (Tier 2 for 4.7), no 64 bit support ... See also http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/developing-on-mac.html

basil_fawlty

Thanks for your answer. But I dont mean Qt in general. I mean especially creating siblings on top of a QGLWidget, which is a problem on mac.

kkoehne

Your Qt is either using Cocoa, or Carbon. This isn't a runtime switch, but a compile switch, so I'm afraid you're out of luck.

(Btw, I ran into the same problem a while ago, but could solve it by changing the widget hierarchy. Maybe you can make your sibling objects to be inside the QGLWidget scene)?

basil_fawlty

bq. (Btw, I ran into the same problem a while ago, but could solve it by changing the widget hierarchy. Maybe you can make your sibling objects to be inside the QGLWidget scene)?

This is interesting. Can you be more specific about that. How did you manage to do that? Maybe an example. I am new to Qt, so it is difficult to understand everything from descriptions.

THANKS

kkoehne

A QGLWidget can have child widgets, which are then automatically rendered in the OpenGL context. That is, if you've a hypothetical hierarchy:

@MainWindow
ToolBar1
GLCanvas
ToolBar2
@
And you want to allow the toolbars to overlay the canvas, you can try to change the hierarchy to

@MainWindow
GLCanvas
ToolBar1
ToolBar2@

andre

They keyword in the warning is, I think, sibling widgets. That is: widgets that are at the same level of the GLWidget, instead of being child widgets of the GLWidget.