[Development] QtWindowsExtras

Joseph Crowell joseph.w.crowell at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 01:19:05 CET 2013


On 01/19/2013 03:47 AM, Jake Thomas Petroules wrote:
> As many OS/WM utility methods were removed from Qt 5, we need to 
> reimplement their functionality in the QtWindowsExtras, QtMacExtras, 
> and QtX11Extras libraries.
>
> For example, in QtMacExtras we have a unified toolbar implementation 
> that replaces setUnifiedTitleAndToolbar(), and converter functions to 
> replace QPixmap::toMacCGImageRef(), QPixmap::fromMacCGImageRef() as 
> well as other type conversions, etc. Morten also has some clipboard 
> functionality pending as well as a utility function to set the dock 
> menu to a QMenu, native widgets, and some other stuff. Similarly, 
> QtX11Extras has QX11Info ported from Qt 4 and I imagine may have more 
> functionality in the future..
>
> Windows is no different, and there is a lot that could fit into such a 
> library, including but not limited to:
>
> * Replacements for native API converter functions 
> (QPixmap::toWinHBITMAP(), QPixmap::fromWinHBITMAP(), 
> QPixmap::toWinHICON(), QPixmap::fromWinHICON()... I think there was 
> also a QMenu::wceMenu() that gave an HMENU and a similar function for 
> Windows itself (not CE) would be great)
> * Taskbar functionality for Windows 7/8 (jump lists, overlay 
> icons, progress indicators, thumbnail toolbars, thumbnail tab previews)
> * DWM interaction (enable/disable composition, extend frame into 
> client area)
>
> This is important functionality usable by a large number of Windows 
> apps, clearly evidenced by the former presence of some of this 
> functionality in Qt 4. I have a decent amount of code implementing 
> much of this functionality already, just awaiting contribution...
>
> I'm sure there is more I haven't thought of as well. Perhaps some 
> Windows 8 APIs?

+1 Some of this was also promised after the 5.0.0 release was out.

>
> Jake Petroules
> Petroules Corporation (www.petroules.com <http://www.petroules.com>)
> Email: jake.petroules at petroules.com <mailto:jake.petroules at petroules.com>
> Telephone: +1 (970) 587-3821
>
> On Jan 18, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org 
> <mailto:lpapp at kde.org>> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Jake Thomas Petroules 
>> <jake.petroules at petroules.com <mailto:jake.petroules at petroules.com>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     As we have a QtMacExtras and QtX11Extras, could someone please
>>     create a QtWindowsExtras as well?
>>
>>
>> Could you please elaborate about the use case?
>>
>> Laszlo
>
>
>
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