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      basil_fawlty last edited by

      According to the Qt documentation siblings on top of QGLWidget are not supported on mac.

      bq. On Mac OS X, when Qt is built with Cocoa support, a QGLWidget can't have any sibling widgets placed ontop of itself. This is due to limitations in the Cocoa API and is not supported by Apple. ("here":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qglwidget.html)

      As you can see in the quote it says: On Mac OS X, when Qt is built with Cocoa support...

      So, is there a possibility turning the Cocoa support off? I mean, from this sentence I understand, that it might be possible.

      It would be such a great help if I could place siblings on top of my QGLWidget...

      Thanks...

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      • kkoehne
        kkoehne Moderators last edited by

        Sure, you can compile Qt for carbon: configure -carbon ... . Note however that this is not as well supported any more (Tier 2 for 4.7), no 64 bit support ... See also http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/developing-on-mac.html

        Director R&D, The Qt Company

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          basil_fawlty last edited by

          Thanks for your answer. But I dont mean Qt in general. I mean especially creating siblings on top of a QGLWidget, which is a problem on mac.

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          • kkoehne
            kkoehne Moderators last edited by

            Your Qt is either using Cocoa, or Carbon. This isn't a runtime switch, but a compile switch, so I'm afraid you're out of luck.

            (Btw, I ran into the same problem a while ago, but could solve it by changing the widget hierarchy. Maybe you can make your sibling objects to be inside the QGLWidget scene)?

            Director R&D, The Qt Company

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              basil_fawlty last edited by

              bq. (Btw, I ran into the same problem a while ago, but could solve it by changing the widget hierarchy. Maybe you can make your sibling objects to be inside the QGLWidget scene)?

              This is interesting. Can you be more specific about that. How did you manage to do that? Maybe an example. I am new to Qt, so it is difficult to understand everything from descriptions.

              THANKS

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              • kkoehne
                kkoehne Moderators last edited by

                A QGLWidget can have child widgets, which are then automatically rendered in the OpenGL context. That is, if you've a hypothetical hierarchy:

                @MainWindow
                ToolBar1
                GLCanvas
                ToolBar2
                @
                And you want to allow the toolbars to overlay the canvas, you can try to change the hierarchy to

                @MainWindow
                GLCanvas
                ToolBar1
                ToolBar2@

                Director R&D, The Qt Company

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                  andre last edited by

                  They keyword in the warning is, I think, sibling widgets. That is: widgets that are at the same level of the GLWidget, instead of being child widgets of the GLWidget.

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