On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Bernd Stramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Does this address whether a widget is obscured by something else? > > In some windowing systems large numbers of windows are visible, or > partially visible. In other windowing systems only a small number (like > say, one) are visible. The windows don't know this in Qt.
True, so it would be useful to know how far I was minimized, and do a ratio of this and the size of the display, then you could know if it is still worth redrawing, this could be a nice optimization direction and still maintain highly responsive UX. > More generally it would be really nice if my application would know > what kind of device it is running on, *at run time*. And what kind of > display is used. How large are things on the display. > > If those things are unknown (as I think they are at present), it is not > practical to write applications once and have them work on different > types of devices. True, I think I saw this is being worked on , but otherwise there are nice and friendly people in #qt-labs you talk to, possibly file a feature request, patch etc etc :) > > And no, tons of #ifdefs don't count as "write once" :) Known, and is already somewhat described here: http://wiki.meego.com/Qt_across_(Maemo-)MeeGo_%26_Symbian#Collecting_Porting_Experience -Sivan _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
