QSystemTrayIcon, change behavior

[hbatalha]

@SGaist thanks for the quick reply

What do you want from your system tray icon ?

This is the message it shows.

After this message disappears, the icon I set for the tray continues here:

I don't want that.
I can set the visibility to false after showMessage() but then, the message won't stay in the notification area.

I hope I made the question clear.

[SGaist]

So you just want the notification but not the icon ?

[hbatalha]

@SGaist sorry for the late reply

So you just want the notification but not the icon ?

yes, and I want the notification to stay in the notification area

[SGaist]

Then you might have to pilfer the backend code of QSystemTrayIcon since you have no use of it beside the notification part.

[hbatalha]

@SGaist

Then you might have to pilfer the backend code of QSystemTrayIcon since you have no use of it beside the notification part.

Where do I find the code?

[Christian Ehrlicher]

In the git repo or e.g. here: https://code.woboq.org/qt5/qtbase/src/widgets/util/qsystemtrayicon.cpp.html

[hbatalha]

@Christian-Ehrlicher thank you
Is there any step by step on how to build it from source, or in which category here in the forum can I post a question?

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Why do you want to compile Qt5 now?
See https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/build-sources.html

[hbatalha]

@Christian-Ehrlicher just out of curiosity

[hbatalha]

@SGaist

What exactly did you mean by "pilfer the backend "? Should I remove some code?

[hbatalha]

@Christian-Ehrlicher or https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/windows-building.html

[SGaist]

@hbatalha said in QSystemTrayIcon, change behavior:

@SGaist

What exactly did you mean by "pilfer the backend "? Should I remove some code?

No, you should get some inspiration from it.

[hbatalha]

@SGaist
I don't see how that will help me achieve what I want, I went through the code in @Christian-Ehrlicher 's link but couldn't find anything that would help me, I might be missing some things.

[SGaist]

You have to do some more spelunking and go to the backend side of things to get the Windows specific implementation.

[hbatalha]

@SGaist I will try