I have an application that gui is made up with QML. The task is to start an external program (LibreOffice) "inside" my application. It means that when you press the button on the app's face, external program must be shown in the same window as the main program is. And also it can be closed by app's button that is drown under the external window.
The only thing that I could do for the moment is to start lowriter with QProcess using this article. But it is still shown in separate window and I don't know how to make a button that will close lowriter.
If somebody have any thoughts about how to do this, it would be great if you share it.. Thanks!
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how to display Qprocess output window inside the QT mainwindow? I am calling ffplay by Qprocess. the video playing in a detached window? how would i play the video in same application QTwindow
I don't know ffplay but it seems that ffplay is opening the window by itself. One approach is that you could try to get the current image and display that in your mainwindow. Every time a new image is available you have to replace the image in your ui with the new one. Of course you have to keep synchronization in mind, since this application is not single-threaded.
In general your approach looks not right. You shouldn't call a program to do that kind of task. Normally you use a library for that.
You should have a look at this example to get an idea what I'm talking about: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-widgets-movie-example.html
I'm developing an application in PyQT5 which has a QWidget object on the top. This application needs to be able to run in 'kiosk' mode, so my aim is to make that top QWidget modal and prevent any other running application of being focused.
The skeleton of the main class is below. Note that I'm calling the setWindowModality() method which in theory sets the behavior of the window to the chosen one:
class MyApp(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
QWidget.__init__(self)
self.setWindowModality(3)
My main method is the following:
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
MyApp()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
As per the setWindowModality() method documentation:
Qt.NonModal 0 The window is not modal and does not block input to other windows.
Qt.WindowModal 1 The window is modal to a single window
hierarchy and blocks input to its parent window, all grandparent
windows, and all siblings of its parent and grandparent windows.
Qt.ApplicationModal 2 The window is modal to the application and
blocks input to all windows.
The problem is that the window is not modal at all, I can switch to a different application (say a Web browser), which is exactly what I want to prevent. I've also tried 1, 2, 3 as values and they produce the same behavior.
I'm afraid this could be a design restriction in order to avoid apps block other apps, but I'm not sure of it and I'm unable to confirm it.
Am I missing something obvious here? In case the problem is the design restriction, is there a way to still simulate a modal window?
Modality is only with respect to current application. If application has only one open top level window, then there's no difference between application and window modal. This modality has no effect on other applications, so you are not able to achieve what you want with it, there's no simple "desktop modal" flag.
You can use Qt to make the window full screen, but you have to use other means to prevent user from accessing the desktop, or closing the app (often bound to ALT-F4 keyboard shortcut). If your platform is Windows, then I don't know how to do that, but I'm sure there's a way. Under X11 (used on Linux usually), the most straightforward way to do that is not have a desktop at all, simply by just running the app without desktop. Look up nodm package for an easy way to do this.
I am trying to implement a terminal in my application.
Currently, class Terminal inherits from QMainWindow, and all of its contents are lost if the close button is triggered. This does not affect the main application though.
I want the contents to stay and be accessible by the rest of the application. How can I achieve that?
I use the last Qt version for a projet and QProcess. I want to lauch program from my application by using QProcess. I want to display a QGraphicsView transparent on full screen over the launched program.
For the moment: I hide the view, launch the program, sleep during 5 seconds and show the view. I want that my view keep the focus and stay on the top level? Is there any better way to do that? A custom setting for the QGraphicsView?
Create your QGraphicsView (or the window that contains it) with the Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint flag
Once you run a program in QProcess, you have limited control over it. Qt does not provide details about other applications that are running, you won't know where the launched application is being displayed unless it tells you explicitly.
If you have access to the code of the application you're running, it is possible put a transparent overlay on top a given widget, or widgets, that could then record mouse clicks and other interactions. It's also possible to override events and record basic information about the application's use.
I've got a Maemo (Qt) app that does some integration with the built-in media player via D-Bus. All the control functionality I need is complete, but I've got a requirement to show my application window (which gets backgrounded when playback starts) instead of the media player when the playback window is closed (it's a stacked window).
It should go like this: user clicks item in my Qt application, which launches the media file in the native media player. User watches media file, exits by clicking the arrow on the playback window. I'd like to somehow catch this event and bring my application to the front instead of showing the media player's main window.
Is it even possible on Maemo? I'm thinking that some low-level X coding might be required.
Answer was painfully obvious, I can catch a state_changed signal from D-Bus- state=0 when the window is closed.
You can also use the raise() method of Qt windows.