[Qt-interest] how to hide the taskbar/dock icon?

[Tony Rietwyk]

Hi Gabriele, 
 
This is the code that I use to do the opposite - I want the button to appear during the splash screen which, only occurs on mac.  For Windows I had to override the window flags set by QSplashScreen's contructor, 
 
splash = new QSplashScreen( pixmap );
 
#if defined (Q_OS_WIN)
 int style = GetWindowLong( splash->winId(), GWL_STYLE );
 qDebug( "Splash style before = %8.8x", style );
 
 int exstyle = GetWindowLong( splash->winId(), GWL_EXSTYLE );
 qDebug( "Splash exstyle before = %8.8x", exstyle );
 
 SetWindowLong( splash->winId(), GWL_EXSTYLE, 
  exstyle & ~WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW );
 
 exstyle = GetWindowLong( splash->winId(), GWL_EXSTYLE );
 qDebug( "Splash exstyle after = %8.8x", exstyle );
#endif
 
splash->show();
 
My users where getting confused when popups occured during initialisation, and they had swapped away to another application - the popup would occur in the background, and the user has no way to bring it to the front! 
 
Hope that helps, 
 
Tony.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Gabriele Kahlout
Sent: Saturday, 10 July 2010 18:55
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: [Qt-interest] how to hide the taskbar/dock icon?


Hello,

My application is a background process that occassionally shows a window (set always on top). I'd like not to have a dock item/taskbar tab for it at all.
How can I do that?

Couldn't find any reference in the doc, while previous posts don't work (eg. Qt::Popup or splashscreen) or are incomplete.

-- 
Regards, 
K. Gabriele



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