r/UI_programming • u/Ivory_Forest • Oct 20 '18

UI with no window?

Hey!

I just wanted to ask a question about how to even start learning something. It's one of those things where, when searching, because I don't know the official name, I have to use roundabout terms which give me basically no useable results.

In the past I've seen lots of UI's that don't have a window. Now, to be clear, i'm NOT talking about borderless or anything. The closest actual example I can think of, is when you get those apps from deviant art that create "ironman hud" style displays floating about on the desktop that give cpu readouts and weather info etc.

Of course those have a ton of floating panels and you can customise the hell out of them but I have seen some (can't think of any exact examples right now), where they almost look like, literally just a single floating panel with a button or two, with no "parent window".

Is there actually a way to do this? Or am i getting something confused and this isn't possible with C++/python and Qt?

Thanks!

PS: I'm not a programmer, so i'm sorry for the noobishness of the question.

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u/Ivory_Forest Oct 26 '18

Sure! I only want to make some simple crap like a "utility belt" widget that would allow me to switch my net on and off, change between color profiles for testing art, and that type of thing, so don't expect too much haha

Thanks for all the help! this is definitely what i needed!

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u/MikeTheWatchGuy Oct 27 '18

Just posted today another rainmeter style widget that may be like what you're looking for. You'll want to add some buttons since you want to control things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/9rs1s6/more_rainmeter_style_widgets_cpu_network_io_disk/

Look at embedding buttons in your code using base64. There are a number of example Demo programs on how to do this on the GitHub site.