[Qt-interest] [Fwd: Creating a Border to Desktop]

[Raja Rokkam]

Forgot telling you to create your own QWidget class and do these changes
over there so that it makes ur life easier.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Raja Rokkam <rokkamraja at gmail.com> wrote:

> create a QWidget and get screen geometry using QDesktopWidget.
>
> Set this flags:
>
> setAttribute(Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground);
>
> setAttribute(Qt::WA_TransparentForMouseEvents);
> and if you want to draw a border jus override the paint events and create a
> QPainter object in it and just paint the border.
>
>
> -Raja.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Stefano Rosellini <s.rosellini at iv-srl.it>wrote:
>
>> Take a look to QWidget::setMask to create a widget with "holes" and
>> QDesktopWidget to get desktop geometry.
>>
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am creating a widget which has following requirements.
>>
>> 1. Widget covers an entire screen. Like full screen.
>>
>> 2. Thick blue border.
>>
>> 3. Widget is such that I can see UI in the background. .i.e. I can see my
>> desktop.
>>
>> To summarize this, it’s like putting a border on your desktop. One can
>> also consider it as creating a Frame for a desktop.
>>
>> Any help is highly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Rahul
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