QToolbar

[nemmartins]

Hi guys,

I've been trying to get a qtoolbar initially floating in my QMainWindow...

The toolbar can be docked, either on top or in bottom area, but initially when the user runs the application I would like this toolbar to be floating and in a specific position on screen. Right now, when I start the application always docks at top.

Does anyone done this? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Nuno

[tony]

Hi,

I just made a test, and I succeeded using this two calls in my MainWindow constructor (after setupUi call):

mainToolBar->setWindowFlags(Qt::Tool | Qt::FramelessWindowHint);
mainToolBar->show();

I'm not sure if it works 100% of the time, but you can try.

Antonio

[nemmartins]

thanks, Antonio!

well, is working now... later on I will try it also on Mac

[tony]

Well, I found this solution looking at the QToolBar source code, qtoolbar.cpp.

In particular, I found this method:

@
void QToolBarPrivate::updateWindowFlags(bool floating, bool unplug)
{
Q_Q(QToolBar);
Qt::WindowFlags flags = floating ? Qt::Tool : Qt::Widget;

flags |= Qt::FramelessWindowHint;

if (unplug) {
    flags |= Qt::X11BypassWindowManagerHint;

#ifdef Q_WS_MAC
flags |= Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint;
#endif
}

q->setWindowFlags(flags);

}
@

So I guess that you need also to add the flag Qt::X11BypassWindowManagerHint, and, with Mac,
the flag Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint.

Antonio