On Nov 23, 2010, at 14:11, ext Elliot Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 12:04 +0000, Tomas Junnonen wrote:
>>
>> Here's a the minimal transparent app C++ stub:
>>
>> QDeclarativeView view;
>>
>> QPalette palette;
>> palette.setColor(QPalette::Base, Qt::transparent);
>> view.setPalette(palette);
>> view.setAttribute(Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground);
>>
>> view.setSource(QUrl::fromLocalFile("main.qml"));
>> view.show();
>
> Does anyone happen to know whether there is any intention to add support
> for transparency to the qmlviewer itself. Perhaps an option like:
>
> -opacity <percent>
>
> might be useful?
Actually it's not a very common use case.
qmlviewer is a generic testing app to see qml files.
You better want to deploy your own solution with you custom executable.
Also translucent top level widgets are not very common on desktop and mobile
worlds. Also it involves the window manager to kick in, this is not good
performance wise as well as battery life wise.
>
> Elliot
>
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