Replace window rectange with image

EpicLoyd

How to replace window rectangle with some png image ( QMainWindow class ) using stylesheets?

mrjj

hi and welcome
please see this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19939938/qt-creator-how-do-i-add-a-background-image-to-the-qmainwindow

EpicLoyd

many thanks :) but rectangle is still exist http://prntscr.com/9c3x8t and i have... black background

mrjj

@EpicLoyd
A note. the samples uses images that are stored in resource file.
not directly off hard disk.

the last sample loads it from file

 QPixmap bkgnd("/home/user/Pictures/background.png"); // from file if windows it would be c:/blabla/x.png
 bkgnd = bkgnd.scaled(this->size(), Qt::IgnoreAspectRatio);
  QPalette palette;
  palette.setBrush(QPalette::Background, bkgnd);
 this->setPalette(palette);

EpicLoyd

@mrjj yes of course but... i want to escape window rectangle ( with exit etc buttons)

mrjj

@EpicLoyd
you mean you want to have a window with no frame and buttons ?
you can try
setWindowFlags(Qt::FramelessWindowHint);
in the constructor of the window.

ahh just saw the other post.
look at this
http://www.codeprogress.com/cpp/libraries/qt/showQtExample.php?index=145&key=QMainWindowPartialTransparent

make sure the PNG do have transparent areas.

EpicLoyd

@mrjj said:

@EpicLoyd
you mean you want to have a window with no frame and buttons ?
you can try
setWindowFlags(Qt::FramelessWindowHint);
in the constructor of the window.

ahh just saw the other post.
look at this
http://www.codeprogress.com/cpp/libraries/qt/showQtExample.php?index=145&key=QMainWindowPartialTransparent

make sure the PNG do have transparent areas.

ha, found it too, helped a half: http://prntscr.com/9c4gh4

mrjj

Super.
So you might need to add a button to close it :)

EpicLoyd

@mrjj awwww, i don't think that this is super :( , i've expecting something like this http://prntscr.com/9c4hui

mrjj

@EpicLoyd
ok. maybe scale it in photoshop ?
Normally it works pretty ok.