Multiple messages in QSplashScreen

simplePlan

I noticed that I can only show one message using 'showMessage' at a time. How can I show the application name and the status of the splashscreen at the same time without rendering a picture of the splashscreen including the application name. Here is my code so far:

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QSplashScreen *splash = new QSplashScreen;
QPixmap *splashPicture=new QPixmap(400,300);
splashPicture->fill(Qt::lightGray);
splash->setPixmap(*splashPicture);
splash->show();

Qt::Alignment center = Qt::AlignHCenter | Qt::AlignVCenter;
splash->showMessage(QObject::tr("Application 1.0"),
                    center, Qt::black);

Qt::Alignment topRight = Qt::AlignRight | Qt::AlignTop;
splash->showMessage(QObject::tr("Setting up the main window..."),
                   topRight, Qt::black);

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DerManu

Either add a label to QSlashScreen (e.g. by subclassing) or just create your own splash screen dialog with QtDesigner. I Recommend the latter method, because a custom splash screen should be set up within a few minutes from scratch.

simplePlan

Thank you for your advice. I even found a more comfortable method (using QPainter) to do it, by replacing lines 7-9 by:

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QPainter* painter=new QPainter(splashPicture);
painter->drawText(200,150,"Application 1.0");
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The problem is now resolved for me.

DerManu

Oh, I thought by saying
"without rendering a picture of the splashscreen including the application name"
You meant you don't want to do it by painting on the splash pixmap.

Anyhow, make sure to delete the painter, or you'll get a memory leak. Better yet, create it on the stack via

QPainter painter(&splashPicture);

simplePlan

Thanks. Well, I am a beginner, I might not express myself too well. I wanted to say, I dont want to do it in a graphic software outside Qt, so I can easily change it when I want to modify the title.

elmigranto

Pretty general approach with layouts works here too:

@ QSplashScreen *splash = new QSplashScreen(QPixmap(QString::fromUtf8("splashscreen.png")));

QVBoxLayout *layout = new QVBoxLayout(splash);
layout->setAlignment(Qt::AlignCenter);

QLabel *label1 = new QLabel(QString::fromUtf8("Hello, World"), splash);
QLabel *label2 = new QLabel(QString::fromUtf8("I'm loading…"), splash);
layout->addWidget(label1);
layout->addWidget(label2);

splash->setLayout(layout);
splash->show();

// do stuff...

splash->hide();
splash->deleteLater();@