QSystemTrayIcon accumulates

kalma

Hi

Windows 7
Qt 5.3.0 mingw

I use the following code to show tray icon, but it stays there even after I close my application, they clear only when I hover over them, what wrong am I doing?

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QSystemTrayIcon *icon = new QSystemTrayIcon(QIcon(":/icons/logo.png"));
if(icon->isSystemTrayAvailable()){
icon->show();
icon->showMessage(tr("Help"), tr("Help text"), QSystemTrayIcon::Information, 2000);
}
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SGaist

Hi,

Since you did not give a parent to your QSystemTrayIcon, are you deleting it somewhere ?

kalma

Thanks for the quick response SGaist!

No, should I use (this) as parent?

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QSystemTrayIcon *icon = new QSystemTrayIcon(QIcon(":/icons/logo.png"), this);
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I am creating the icon in the main class of type (MainWindow).

PS: I have posted the same by mistake in other forum (Cloud), I could not deleted it, sorry.

SGaist

Indeed you should. Without that you have a memory leak and icon will not be properly destroyed when your program ends

kalma

Thanks, it worked nicely.

SGaist

You're welcome !

Since it's now all working fine, please update the thread title prepending [solved] so other forum users may know a solution has been found :)