/*! \page toplevel-example.html \ingroup examples \title Toplevel Widgets This example demonstrates the use of Qt's widget flags to provide toplevel widgets with customized window decorations. It provides a graphical user interface for selecting different options for widget decoration and behavior, and passes the appropriate widget flags to the QWidget constructor. QWidget::reparent() is used to change the widget flags at runtime. \warning Note that the interpretation and functionality of the widget flags depends on the window manager used when running the application. Many window managers do not support every possible flag combination. The user interface providing the different options was created using \link designer-manual.book TQt Designer\endlink. The different options are explained in the user interface through the use of tooltips and What's This help. Load the \c options.ui file into \link designer-manual.book TQt Designer\endlink for more details. \quotefile toplevel/main.cpp \printuntil } The main function creates and displays the dialog for the user interface. Note that this dialog is modal. The code relevant for this example is in the \c options.ui.h file. \quotefile toplevel/options.ui.h \printuntil WFlags The \c apply() slot declares the widget flag variable \c f and initializes it with the values \list \i \c WDestructiveClose - the widget will be automatically destroyed when it is closed, \i \c WType_TopLevel - the widget will be top level even if it has a parent widget, and \i \c WStyle_Customize - the flags override the default values \endlist Other flags are used depending on the options selected in the user interface. \printto bgTitle->isChecked() The window gets a normal or dialog border depending on the selected option. \printto else A titlebar with controls is provided if the appropriate options have been checked. \printto QWidget *parent If the window should not have a border it cannot have a titlebar. Widgets that provide their own (e.g. themed) window decoration should use this flag. \printto cbBehaviorStays If a toplevel widget has a parent it will not have a taskbar entry, and on most window managers it will always stay on top of the parent widget. This is the standard behavior for dialog boxes, especially if they are modeless, and for other secondary toplevel widgets. To provide a taskbar entry the widget must have no parent, in which case we need to use the \c WGroupLeader flag to prevent blocking through the modal main dialog. Applications that can have multiple toplevel windows open simultaneously should use this combination. \printto cbBehaviorPopup A toplevel widget can stay on top of the whole desktop if the window manager supports this functionality. \footnote Unfortunately some X11 window managers also require the \c WX11BypassWM flag to be set in addition; but some other X11 window managers will have problems if this flag is set. \endfootnote Widgets that display important or realtime information (i.e. IRC clients) might benefit from using that flag. \printto cbBehaviorModal A popup widget is a short lived modal widget that closes automatically. Popup menus are a typical example for such widgets. \printto cbBehaviorTool A modal widget blocks input to other toplevel widgets, unless those are in a different modal group (see \c WGroupLeader). Dialogs are often modal, and the QDialog class provides an easy API to create and display them without the need to explicitly use this flag. \printto !widget A tool window will never have a task bar entry (even if it has no parent widget), and often has a smaller window decoration. Tool windows are frequently used instead of modeless dialogs. \printto else The widget is created if it has not been created yet, or if it was closed (since we use the \c WDestructiveClose flag). Note that the window is not visible yet. \footnote The example uses QGuardedPtr to make sure that the pointer is reset to zero when the widget object is destroyed due to the \c WDestructiveClose flag. \endfootnote \printto setCaption If the widget has already been created the reparent() function is used to modify the widget's flags. The widget's geometry is not changed, and the window is not shown again. \printuntil show() Finally the higher level properties such as the window's caption and icon are set. The window transparency is set according to the slider value. Note that this will only have effect on systems that support this attribute for toplevel window. \printuntil } Finally the window is shown with the new attributes. To build the example go to the toplevel directory (\c TQTDIR/examples/toplevel) \footnote We use \c TQTDIR to stand for the directory where TQt is installed. \endfootnote and run \c qmake to generate the makefile, then use the make tool to build the library. */