Interactive application icon
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@JonB It's actually really simple, the application's icon is just an image, so you just need an image representation of a widget, and when that widget changes, you can just update the application's icon like this:
pixmap = self.slider_frame.grab() self.setWindowIcon(QIcon(pixmap))grab() returns a pixmap, update the pixmap each time the slider moves, set the pixmap as the new icon.
You can also do the same thing for the tray icon.
You can also use a QMovie animation, for examplepixmap = self.animation.currentPixmap()So if you combine everything, you can have an event driven interactive application icon / system tray icon
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@JonB It's actually really simple, the application's icon is just an image, so you just need an image representation of a widget, and when that widget changes, you can just update the application's icon like this:
pixmap = self.slider_frame.grab() self.setWindowIcon(QIcon(pixmap))grab() returns a pixmap, update the pixmap each time the slider moves, set the pixmap as the new icon.
You can also do the same thing for the tray icon.
You can also use a QMovie animation, for examplepixmap = self.animation.currentPixmap()So if you combine everything, you can have an event driven interactive application icon / system tray icon
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@Mizmas And that would work in, say, GNOME? I thought that just uses a static file for its icon?
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@Mizmas
...which is why I said it would probably depend on your platform/window manager which you didn't say...[TBH I had not noticed initially that this was Showcase, I thought you were asking if you could do this from Qt.] Your showcase is fine, just you might like to mention this if it's e.g. Windows-only as Qt is cross-platform.
