Cocoa Textured Window in Qt

Question

I am using Qt to develop a cross platform application. I am trying to replicate the look and feel of the left two windows (A HUD window and a textured window) but so far I can't see how to get any kind of window except for the right most window. Does anybody have any idea how to replicate those type windows?

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Answer 1

Have a look at Transmission. They have a platform independent background process and write the interface in native libraries for every platform. That's how they ensure a good looking application on all 3 platforms.

If you don't want to do the extra work there are some things provided by Qt:

• QMainWindow::setUnifiedTitleAndToolBarOnMac(true)
• QWidget::setAttribute(Qt::WA_MacBrushedMetal, true)
• Use QMacCocoaViewContainer to encapsulate a unified window, but you have to use it with Objective-C. This would make it much harder to maintain a cross-platform application.

The easiest way would probably be to go and hack the Qt source.