QML/3D: how to get a frameless window and transparent background

[Charlie Hsin]

Hi,
I am trying to developing a stereo 3D application. I have successfully showing stereo 3D via Qt/3D on my Nvidia Quadro. I am on Window 7. However, I got issues when I tried to make the window frameless or make the window background transparent.

1. I can successfully get a frameless window if I use the "hellogl" example in the regular Qt codes and use the "FramelessWindowHint". However, if I use the "teapot" example in the Qt/3D codes and use "FramelessWindowHint", the whole application does not show at all.
2. I am also trying to make the window background transparent.

Can someone help me on these 2 tasks?

[Charlie Hsin]

Hi,
I am trying to developing a stereo 3D application. I have successfully showing stereo 3D via QML/3D on my Nvidia Quadro. I am on Window 7. Currently, I am trying to make my window framelss and with a transparent background. Can some one give me some hint about how to do this on QML/3D?

[Franzk]

[quote author="Charlie Hsin" date="1294705858"]

1. I can successfully get a frameless window if I use the "hellogl" example in the regular Qt codes and use the "FramelessWindowHint". However, if I use the "teapot" example in the Qt/3D codes and use "FramelessWindowHint", the whole application does not show at all. [/quote]What's the difference between those two?

[quote author="Charlie Hsin" date="1294705858"]2. I am also trying to make the window background transparent.[/quote]What have you tried so far?

[Charlie Hsin]

1. For the FramelessWindowHint task, the "hellogl" is just a example codes from Qt 4.7 release which does not use the Qt/3D. It uses QGLWidget. The "Teapot" example is from Qt/3D latest release, which uses QGLView. I added SetWindowFlags(...FramelessWindowHint) in the constructor. For hellogl example, it works. For Teapot example, the application exits immediately after I run it. If I take out the SetWindowFlags, it works.

2. For the transparent background, I used Qt/3D teapot example and tried

1. setStyleSheet("background:transparent;") and setAttribute(Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground): They do not result in any transparent effect at all. The background is still black.
2. setWindowOpacity(0.5): This makes the whole window transparent, which is not what I want. Also, this makes the stereo effect not working. (The teapot is not stereo anymore.)

BTW, I changed the format to use stereobuffers in main.cpp to enable hardware stereo effect for Teapot example.

[Charlie Hsin]

I figured out the frameless window issue. If I do the following in TeapotView constructor, it works.

Qt::WindowFlags flags = this->windowFlags();
flags |= Qt::SplashScreen;
this->setWindowFlags(flags);

I didn't get the current flags before, and I guess that violates some QGLView operations. Also, "FramelessWindowHint" does not work in QGLView. I have to use "SplashScreen".

I still haven't figured out the transparent window background part. Can anyone help me on that?