[Interest] emulate windows 10 behaviour on a QT window

[Sze Howe Koh]

Hi Nicolas,

On 11 November 2015 at 05:57, Nicolas Jäger <jagernicolas at legtux.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have to use QT5 on windows 10 (both are not my choice...), I wrote an ui with QT, I have a
> borderless window and I use a widget to make the window bar. I can move the window around the
> screen by clicking and holding the mouse button on that widget.
>
> Now, somebody asks me to emulate the same behaviour like usual windows do on MS Window 10, e.g.
> when you got close of the top of the desktop, the window does an animation to fullscreen it.

This feature is called "Aero Snap". It's designed with bordered
windows in mind, but I think hacks exist that emulate it in borderless
windows.

A quick search on Google for "borderless Aero Snap" yielded
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16765635/aero-snap-with-borderless-window-in-qt
(Note: I have no experience with this myself, so I can't comment on
the quality of the proposed solution)


> I don't know how to do that, I'm not even sure I can do it. But I try to figure if there is a way
> to do it with QT or if I can send some microsoft windows 10 event to force the behaviour.
>
> I never wrote something for window neither for QT before, so it's quiet a challenge for me.
>
> ps: not sure if the word emulate is a good choice
>
> regards,
> Nicolas Jäger

Regards,
Sze-Howe