Qt Frameless Window with DarkStyle

simple MainWindow class implementation with frameless window and custom dark style.

It adds also support for titlebar and buttons (minimize, maximize, close)

Look is based on the VS2013 application window (flat and frameless window)

Screenshots
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Qt and OS

• tested with Qt5.5.0, Qt5.9.0 and Qt5.10.0
• tested on Windows 7, Windows 10,MacOSX 10.12.5 and MacOS 10.13.2

PyQt5

Here is an unofficial Python port of my implementation.

How to use

• add additional include plath to framelesswindow
• add resources framelesswindow.qrc and darkstyle.qrc
• add #include "framelesswindow.h" into main.cpp, create window FramelessWindow framelessWindow; and assign your mainwindow object as content framelessWindow.setContent(mainWindow); and show it framelessWindow.show();
• add #include "DarkStyle.h" into main.cpp and call a.setStyle(new DarkStyle);

#include <QApplication>
#include "DarkStyle.h"
#include "framelesswindow.h"
#include "mainwindow.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  QApplication a(argc, argv);

  // style our application with custom dark style
  QApplication::setStyle(new DarkStyle);
  //QApplication::setPalette(QApplication::style()->standardPalette());

  // create frameless window (and set windowState or title)
  FramelessWindow framelessWindow;
  //framelessWindow.setWindowState(Qt::WindowMaximized);
  //framelessWindow.setWindowTitle("test title");
  //framelessWindow.setWindowIcon(a.style()->standardIcon(QStyle::SP_DesktopIcon));
  
  // create our mainwindow instance
  MainWindow *mainWindow = new MainWindow;

  // add the mainwindow to our custom frameless window
  framelessWindow.setContent(mainWindow);
  framelessWindow.show();

  return a.exec();
}

features

• frameless window
• custom dark style (based on Fusion style with dark palette and custom stylesheets)
• title bar
• buttons (minimize | restore | maximize | close)
• move window by drag the title bar
• dobule click title bar to toggle between window styte (maximize and normal)
• use of native events, like minimizing or system menu

todo

• resize window on each corner [#1] (some work done by notecola 👍)
• snap on screen edges [#3]

thanks

Many thanks goes to the Qt Forum and especially to Chris Kawa for pointing me to some usual issues and hints of great must have features.

Licence

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018, Juergen Skrotzky (https://github.com/Jorgen-VikingGod, [email protected])

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