Making a floatable widget in Qt
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wrote on 9 Jul 2012, 05:42 last edited by
In my aplication when there shall be some validation happens, i need a widget or messagebox kind of concept which will pop up in the RIGHT HAND SIDE BOTTOM of my application for some time (for 5-10 sec) , after that specific time it should disapper ..
Can anyone give any idea how to implement this thing
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A QLabel seems to be a good candidate, if you apply some QSS styles or custom painting.
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wrote on 9 Jul 2012, 06:20 last edited by
for eg- when we are getting a mail in outlook some indication is being displayed in the rigt side corner .. i have to implment the same in my application ...
could you please give a small example on this ?? -
Take a look at "QFrame":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qframe.html it might give you a lot of styling options. QLabel inherits from QFrame.
Example? I'm kind of not in the mood for that, and quite busy, too. So just a quick, untested prototype:
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QLabel *mylab = new QLabel(this);
mylab->setText("Blah blah");
mylab->setFrameStyle(QFrame::StyledPanel | QFrame::Raised);
mylab->setStyle("background: yellow"); // I don't remember inlined QSS syntax here, check docs for that
mylab->move(someX, someY); // Or use layouts, or modality, but that would be tricky and requre testing
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wrote on 9 Jul 2012, 06:58 last edited by
is there any functionality to know the coordinate of the laptop screen (right hand side bottom ) ?
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I don't know. I thought you meant bottom right corner of your window.
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wrote on 9 Jul 2012, 07:19 last edited by
yes , bottom right corner ..
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wrote on 9 Jul 2012, 13:26 last edited by
How about using [[doc:QDesktopWidget]] for information like that?
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wrote on 10 Jul 2012, 03:45 last edited by
through QDesktopWidget we can know the coordinates of the bottom right corner of the desktop ..
is there any way to know the coordinates of bottom right corner of the application ? -
Are you serious?
Just take x() + width() and y() + height()... or make use of QWidget::geometry().
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wrote on 10 Jul 2012, 06:04 last edited by
Use QWidget::frameGeometry() to get the size and position of the window including the surrounding decorations.
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