I want to create a file open dialog with wxwidgets that uses the "new" style of the Common Item Dialog under Win-Vista and newer. Is there any way to achive this? With the wxFileDlg() I get a dialog as shown on the right side but I'd like to get th left dialog...
both dialogs
The dialogs sample included in wxWidgets shows the example of "new style" file dialog if you use e.g. "Dialogs|File operations|Save dialog" menu item (or just press Ctrl+S) and there is nothing special to do. If this doesn't work for you, check that you're
Not using some ancient version of wxWidgets.
Have correct manifest in your application.
Not using any custom controls in your dialog, as those are only supported in old style version.
I struggled with this today so thought I would post here for the next person who has the same issue. If I were to guess, your code was calling either dialog.Center() or dialog.CenterOnParent(). I've posted a lengthy explanation of why this happens here.
From all my time spent on this today, you have to choose whether you want have the old common control dialog and be able to center it, or use the new common item dialog and have it appear in your windows top-left corner.
The good news is that Visual Studio, Word, Excel, Firefox, Chrome, and many others all use the new dialog and they all open at the top-left of the application window.
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How to create an application which stays in top of MacOS, something similar to below image. You can see the Evernote elephant icon.
I don't want to use xcode - because my application already built in QT, it has nice GUI, now I wanted to add extended feature something similar to Evernote. If I click on an elephant it will open a dialog box to write notes. In my case- it's a simple event like on/off buttons.
I have tried and created GUI widget apps but how to make one which resides like Evernote app ?
A custom pop up menu like the one pictured can be done several ways in Qt.
QML is the most modern way of making the menu with the customized styling you are looking for.
Apply the appropriate flags to the window/widget so it appears as a popup.
The same effects can also be done in QWidgets, but takes more code and probably will take longer to make. The flags you are looking for will be found under Qt Window Flags and/or under Qt Widget Attributes.
The stock stylings for Qt for different OS's deal mostly with title bars, status bars, buttons, drop downs, etc.
The base styles for Mac can be found here:
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/gallery-macintosh.html
Once you go to a customized popup, you have to draw all of it yourself... but the native drawing elements in Qt are friendly enough and get you that look you are trying to do.
There are even some tools for exporting from Photoshop or Gimp directly to QML.
http://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/quick-export-to-qml.html
Hope that helps.
You are looking for a tray icon. Qt implements it in QSystemTrayIcon.
Further information
You may take a look at the System Tray Icon Example.
Many StackOverflow posts exist on this topic.
If you already have a program written for Qt, then you can compile and run it under MacOS/X much the same way you could compile it under (whatever OS you're using now). You'll need to install Xcode because Xcode includes the C++ compiler (clang) you'll need in order to compile your Qt program, but you don't have to use the Xcode IDE if you don't want to. Rather, you can either use the QtCreator IDE under MacOS/X, or you can simply open up a Terminal window and do a "qmake ; make" in the directory where your Qt-based program's .pro file is, and build it from the command line that way.
If, on the other hand, your question is actually about how to add an icon to the global menu of a MacOS/X desktop, then I don't think Qt has an API for that, so you'll need to drop down to using one of MacOS/X's native APIs. That will probably involve learning some Objective-C (or Objective-C++, if you prefer), but integrating a bit of Objective-C/C++ into your Qt app is doable with a bit of work.
Office 2010 has a new type of ribbon, the backstage view. This has been implemented in MFC using Codejock Xtreme Toolkit Pro V15.0.1.
The thing is that I feel that the File>Open and File>SaveAs act very strange in Office. They open a modal file open dialog instead of opening an embedded file open dialog in the backstage, which would (IMHO) feel much more natural.
I cannot find a way of doing this in C++ using MFC or Win32. The only thing I found was this question, but that was for Delphi.
So, is it possible to embed the standard Windows File Open dialog as a control in another dialog? Or do I need to implement the entire thing myself?
To the best of my knowledge, The standard Open/Save dialog functionality is exposed through the modal dialog only (through the GetOpenFilename Win32 API).
There is a standard mechanisme to customise the dialog (See Skizz answer) but it remains a modal dialog. One case of advanced customisation was the VB6 Open Project dialog:
The Existing tab contains a file dialog. How did they do it? I mean, how did they manage to put a standard dialog into a page of their 3-tabs property sheet?
It appears that they simply used the standard customization dialog and added a tab control above the standard dir/file controls and listview for other 'tabs' above dir/file controls. These dir/file controls were then hidden by the custom code when a tab other than Existing was clicked. You get it: no real tabs! Just a good old file dialog where the main controls may be hidden in favor of other ones.
So my short answer is: You're pretty much out of luck using the dialog as a child control.
Now, to come back to Office: I believe it's better to keep a modal dialog. It would otherwise be confusing to user: Is the path that I started to type the real path of did I just clicked 'Home' and let the save command unfinished?
I don't know if you can embed a file open dialog into another dialog, but you can certainly extend the existing dialogs:-
Here's one implementation.
And another.
And an MSDN version.
Thanks to David for pointing out the above are a bit out of date, so, after a quick Google, here's a more modern take on extending the file dialogs (and lots of other stuff as well).
I am writing a C++ application using Qt4 and looking to implement a GUI similar to Firefox 4. That is, I need to remove the default context menu in the top left corner of the window and replace it with three buttons. If you notice the button in Firefox 4 is right at the top in the title bar and I am uncertain as to how this can be implemented.
It won't be easy and will not be cross-platform. Read this thread in the qt forums.
You can obtain the behaviour described by implementing a tool bar. More information can be found at QT documentation on QToolBar
I have a Motif-based notepad-like legacy application.
I would like the modeless "Find/Replace" dialog (which is a Motif TopLevelShell) to always stay on top of the other windows of my application, but not on top of other applications.
I don't see any Motif-specific setting to do this.
KDE allows me to set window-specific behavior, but I can only make the "Find/Replace" window stay on top of all windows, which isn't right.
What is the correct way to force one of my application windows to stay on top of the other windows of the same application? Is it possible at all? Is there a way to do it in Motif? KDE? Do I have to drop down to an X call?
If you use a DialogShell then this behavior happens automatically. DialogShells are not modal by default, and do work well for file open and find/replace. Here is a quote from the Motif book:
A DialogShell is always placed on top of the shell widget that owns the parent of the DialogShell.
Dialogs are described well in chapter 5.
Sorry for being 12 years late!
You can subclass KDialog http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/classKDialog.html#10744dda705aa265a43becab32a43ea4
with Qt::WA_ShowModal attribute http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.0/qt.html#WindowType-enum
KDialog dialog(parent, Qt::WA_ShowModal)
dialog.exec()
Maybe it's not what you want, but ...
Is there a way to create a modeless dialog box in C++ MFC which always stays on top of the other windows in the application? I'm thinking sort of like the Find dialog in Visual Studio 2005 - where it stays on top, but you can still edit the underlying text.
(If it makes any difference, it's not MDI; it's a dialog-based app)
Note: This does not work under Windows 10, and may not work under Windows 7 and 8 (Reports vary).
From Nish:
###Making your dialog stay on top
Haven't you seen programs which have
an "always-stay-on-top" option? Well
the unbelievable thing is that you can
make your dialog stay on top with just
one line of code. Simply put the
following line in your dialog class's
OnInitDialog() function.
SetWindowPos(&this->wndTopMost,0,0,0,0,SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE);
Basically what we are doing is to use
the SetWindowPos function to change
the Z-order of our dialog window. We
make our dialog stay on top of all
other windows by moving it to the top
of the Z-order. Now even when you
activate some other window, our window
will stay on top. But I'd advise you
to make sure you know exactly what you
are doing when you do this, for it
might annoy people if they can't get
your window out of the way when they
want to do that.
As you mentioned in the comments, the above line makes the window sit on top of every application. You'll need to do
SetWindowPos(&this->wndTop,0,0,0,0,SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE);
To make a window sit on top of only your application.
The accepted answer fails for Windows 7 or above. (Or perhaps its me)
But making the modeless dialog as popup instead of child solves it.
It now gets positioned wrt main dialog window but you can write code to constrain anywhere.
Using the no border or top bar makes it a simple window.
It worked for me in Microsoft Windows Version 10.0.18362.476. Had to put SetWindowPos(&this->wndTopMost,0,0,0,0,SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE); in OnInitDialog and make the dialog as a PopUp.