[Qt-interest] Modeless dialog window dos'nt response to the move command

[Andre Somers]

On 18-5-2010 13:25, Meir Yanovich wrote:
> Thanks for the replay , so how can i  bound the window to the systray 
> icon ?
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Andre Somers <andre at familiesomers.nl 
> <mailto:andre at familiesomers.nl>> wrote:
>
>     On 18-5-2010 10:53, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
>>     On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Andre Somers
>>     <andre at familiesomers.nl <mailto:andre at familiesomers.nl>> wrote:
>>
>>         Why do you assume that the coorinate from QSystemTrayIcon is
>>         wrong? The
>>         topleft of the system tray icon is (probably) on the very
>>         bottom of the
>>         screen, on your taskbar. Do you really think moving a window
>>         to that
>>         position (note, you are setting the position of the topleft
>>         corner of
>>         that window!) is going to result in a visible window? On my
>>         setup at
>>         least, windows will slide *under* the taskbar...
>>
>>
>>     Not to mention that this will break setup in which the tray icon
>>     is on the top, or setups in which the user moved the panels to
>>     the sides.
>     Which is what I meant by: "Note that this won't work on systems
>     that don't have their taskbar where you expect it to be..."
>
>     André
>

OK, so one way is to apply some heuristics. To quote myself again:

What may help is making sure that instead of trying to display the
topleft corner on the position of the system tray icon, you try to
position your window so the bottom right corner ends up there. How you
can do that, I'll leave as an excersise to the reader.

That would work in the case where the systemtray is in the bottom right 
corner of the screen. If it is on the top, you will need to position 
your window *under* the icon. And if it is on the left, it will need to 
go to the right. Etc. QDesktopWidget can help you to get the geometry of 
the screen(s). Relate that to the position you get for the system tray 
icon, and you can figure out relatively reliable on what side of the 
system tray icon your window should appear.

André

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