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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Widgets on top of OpenGL game widget
From:       "John-Paul Stanford" <jp () stanwood ! org ! uk>
Date:       2009-06-09 17:15:13
Message-ID: 200906100554.44234.jp () stanwood ! org ! uk
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Hi,

> > If you use a QGraphicsView you should be more or less done.
> > Just ad a QGraphicsProxyWidget and set a stylesheet with e.g. a semi 
> > transparent background color (or just set a semi transparent background > 
color, 
> > this may however fail with some UI styles)
> 
> Easy enough? ;-)

> 
>> So for example I want to create a chat window, and it should be possible to
>> see the game widget behind it. I'd quite like the ability to resize and
>> reposition the window. Maybe in a similar way to plasma applets.

> You can use Plasma or just a QDockWidget (providing some sort of MDI ui - 
uups... did i jsut say plasma is an M,D or I concept...</flame>) or QMdiWindow 
> (but you'll ahve to use a QMdiArea as well...)
> 
> (personal note:
> MDI sucks, leave aside the iCandy, maby a modal dialog is - functionally - 
the 
> better choice?)
> 
> Thomas

I don't think the game will need full blow plasma, I just mean I liked the way
the plasma applet decorations work with the ability to move an resize the 
applets on the desktop.

Thanks for the pointers, I'll look into them.

Cheers,
John-Paul.
 
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