On Jul 9, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On 7/9/2012 10:43 AM, Brian Knudson wrote:
>> As an example, I'm looking at Adobe updater's system tray icon. It has the
>> Adobe logo & a number next to it that denotes the number of updates
>> available. In order to do this, the icon is wider than it is tall.
>>
>> screen shot: http://churchofbk.com/misc/tray_icon.png
>>
>> I would love to be able to do this with one of my apps, as the whole point
>> of the app is to make a certain number of cores available to some other
>> process - so it becomes much more usable as a tray icon if it shows the
>> number of available cores at any one time.
>>
>> With that, can the size/geometry of a QSystemTrayIcon be changed so that it
>> isn't square? If I try to give it a non-square image, it gets scaled while
>> maintaining aspect ratio until it fits in a 16x16 or 22x22 box.
>
> Are you sure that Adobe isn't using two adjacent system tray icons? That was
> my first impression when I looked at your screen shot. But your screen shot
> doesn't look like a Windows system tray, is it Linux or something? I didn't
> even know anything but Windows had system trays...
It's OS X. I don't believe it's called a "System tray" in OS X, but as far as
Qt is concerned, it's the area where QSystemTrayIcons go.
I had initially thought that it was 2 icons as well, but that doesn't *appear*
to be the case - the whole thing highlights on click & the menu always appears
in the same place, regardless of where I click. I suppose there could be quite
a bit of trickery at play here, but I wanted to ask before I started
investigating if it's worth trying to use two icons & make them appear as one.
-Brian
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