Python qt designer borderless window

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hi all

i want create window with no caption and borders in maya (using designer)
and i want to load it as .ui

using python it is possible but i just wanted to know,

is it possible to design borderless window using pyqt designer?
i didnt find any option in designer which will allow to do things like that.

please help

regards
mossin

2

Not strictly through designer no, there’s no simple checkbox to enable it.

Here’s some simple code to enable the frame-less window, and set up a masking image in resizeEvent. I know you wanted to do it in designer, but seeing as that’s not possible right now I figured I’d give you something useful instead :slight_smile:


#in init: self.setWindowFlags(QtCore.Qt.FramelessWindowHint)
#Make a rounded 8px rectangle to mask out the window
def resizeEvent(self, event):
	pixmap = QtGui.QPixmap(self.size())
	pixmap.fill(QtCore.Qt.transparent)
	painter = QtGui.QPainter(pixmap)
	painter.setBrush(QtCore.Qt.black)
	painter.drawRoundedRect(pixmap.rect(), 8, 8)
	painter.end()
		
	self.setMask(pixmap.mask())
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hi nathan

thanks for your quick reply,

for some reason i want to create a borderless window in maya using QT (i dont want native look and feel of maya window)

so for example i m using shapedClock.py.
I want to run this widget inside maya (like native window)

for that i’ve removed
“app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)” and "sys.exit(app.exec_()) "

i used your code and put it in the class

class ShapedClock(QtGui.QWidget):

def getMayaWindow():

          ptr = mui.MQtUtil.mainWindow()
          return sip.wrapinstance(long(ptr), QtCore.QObject)   
  

def __init__(self, parent =getMayaWindow()):

           super(ShapedClock, self).__init__(parent,
            QtCore.Qt.FramelessWindowHint |            QtCore.Qt.WindowSystemMenuHint)

i defined

global clock
clock = ShapedClock()

when i m running this code, shapedClock widget disappears.

How can i run this widget like native window in maya ?

or if u can suggest any other way for creating such window

thanks in advanced

regards
mossin

4

one more problem is how can i get top, left, width and height values of this widget? (same like native window)

5

got it, for overlapping widget on maya window

i replaced QWidget by QDialog and it worked !!!

for widget top, left, width, height

QWidget.pos(), QWidget.width(), QWidget.height()

i was looking for help since two weeks, i was not getting perfect answer

thanks Nathan for helping me…

i appreciate your reply

regards
Mossin

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No problem, glad I could help!