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

[Gabriele Kahlout]

So you suggest I use splashscreen, and that will achieve what I want for all
platforms except mac (the one i use!)?
And then what to do for mac?

2010/7/10 Tony Rietwyk <tony.rietwyk at rightsoft.com.au>

>  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-----
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> 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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