[Qt-interest] Use of System Tray on Mac

[Darryl Hunter]

Just to expand on your proposal...are you saying to have the application always running, and to have it in the dock minimised, so it can have the menus that are in the system tray icon (which include launching it, advising of updates, etc)?  Or changing the logic on the Mac so when it starts the main application, it is more embedded in that application?

This would mean I need a separate code base for Windows and Mac, which doesn't really sound enticing.

Or have I misinterpreted what you have suggested?

But am I right in saying that the functionality of the QSystemTrayIcon logic on the Mac is not consistent with the Mac theme?

Darryl


-----Original Message-----
From: Konstantin Tokarev [mailto:annulen at yandex.ru] 
Sent: Sunday, 13 February 2011 1:54 AM
To: Darryl Hunter
Cc: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Use of System Tray on Mac



12.02.2011, 02:23, "Darryl Hunter" <darryl.hunter at codersoft.com.au>:
> Hi all,
>
> I’m developing an application that runs on the Mac and on Windows.  The application has a system tray icon, which can launch the main application (as well as notify of updates, etc).

I think you should use your main Dock icon for this purpose (as many Mac applications do)


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Regards,
Konstantin