[PySide] how to suppress qwidget's drop shadow under windows?

[Frank Rueter | OHUfx]

Hi Tony,

thanks for that, I will give that a go first thing in the morning (it's 
approaching midnight here).
Will share my findings then.

Cheers,
frank

On 11/07/14 11:23 PM, Tony Barbieri wrote:
> Hey Frank,
>
> I'm pretty sure we use the QtCore.Qt.Tool flag rather than the 
> QtCore.Qt.Popup flag to deal with removing the shadow.  If that 
> doesn't work I can look deeper into how we've dealt with this.
>
> Best,
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx 
> <frank at ohufx.com <mailto:frank at ohufx.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I was given some code that uses a QWidget, makes it completely
>     transparent, then adds a custom paintEvent to draw some custom items.
>     This is meant or a fancy right click menu. Under OSX it ll looks
>     swell,
>     but under windows I get the default drop shadow, because of the
>     QtCore.Qt.Popup flag.
>     e.g.:
>     class MyMenu(PySide.QtGui.QWidget):
>
>        def __init__(self):
>          QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self)
>          self.setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_TranslucentBackground, True)
>          self.setWindowFlags(QtCore.Qt.Popup |
>     QtCore.Qt.FramelessWindowHint)
>
>     w = MyMenu()
>     w = show()
>
>     What is the easiest way to turn off that off (drop shadows for
>     transparent widgets just look irritating :-D )? I guess I could
>     inherit
>     from QMenu instead of QWidget but would expect more work to get it to
>     it's current state and am not entirely sure if that would fix the
>     issue.
>
>     Any ideas?
>
>     Cheers,
>     frank
>
>
>
>
>
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> Tony

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