[Qt] Good progress on TBitmap

[Hess, Philip J]

Probably not all widgetsets. Executables running under X11 don't have
their own dock tile, I don't think. I'll check on this to make sure.
That would probably limit the dock menu to Carbon and Qt apps.

Are you referring to OS X's "Zoom" feature for accessibility? I don't
believe this works quite like the Magnifier, but I could be mistaken.
When I fooled around with it, it seemed like primarily a
keystroke-oriented zoom-in / zoom-out thing. If OS X has an actual
magnifying glass I haven't found it yet.

Thanks.

-Phil


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[mailto:qt-bounces at lazarus.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Felipe Monteiro
de Carvalho
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:30 AM
To: Items specific to the Qt widget set
Subject: Re: [Qt] Good progress on TBitmap

On 1/29/07, Hess, Philip J <pjhess at purdue.edu> wrote:
> Yes, I think you're right - a dock menu that appears when the user
holds
> down the mouse over the running Magnifier's "tile" on the dock
probably
> would be better than Menu extras.

Actually I'm not sure. According to wikipedia, Apple provides a API,
even if incomplete, to create menu extras icons .... and that is
contradictory with the text on apple docs. Maybe at one point they
changed their mind?

> The question is how to add these menu
> items with Qt or FPC. The Carbon framework has a
> SetApplicationDockTileMenu function that can be used to add menu items
> to the app's tile. This is available in the FPCMacOSAll.pas unit.

This would be implemented on Carbon, on TTrayIcon code, and become
transparent to the developers using TTrayIcon. That should work
without code changes on all widgetsets running on Mac OS X.

> One other issue is the app's main bar. In OS X, when an app has the
> focus its menu appears at the top of the screen. This is unlike
Windows
> or Linux, where an app doesn't have to have a menu.

Apple has a magnfying glass of it's own. One could look at how it
solves this problem.

-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
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