Archived:Qt Tips n' Trick : Hide StatusPane

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Complete rewrite done. Reason: It's no longer required to use Symbian C++ code to have a full-screen application with softkeys visible. treinio 15:53, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

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Created: neois (15 Dec 2009)

Last edited: hamishwillee (30 Apr 2013)

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Qt QWidget UI deprecated

This article shows how to hide the status pane and have the softkeys visible Symbian QWidget based applications.

Implementation

On Symbian, Qt::WindowSoftkeysVisibleHint flag, together with a full-screen display mode for a widget (window), can be used to hide the status pane while having the softkey labels still visible.

// Toggle softkey visibility
setWindowFlags( windowFlags() ^ Qt::WindowSoftkeysVisibleHint );
showFullScreen();

Note that calling setWindowFlags() causes the widget to be hidden. Therefore, you must call show() (or in this case, showFullScreen()) to make it visible again.

It is also possible to have the softkeys active (responding), but not visible. This can be done with Qt::WindowSoftkeysRespondHint flag. Note however that on touch devices without physical softkey buttons, softkeys must be visible in order to be usable.

See also

Documentation of QWidget::windowFlags property
Qt softkeys example
Display problem on Symbian fullscreen in landscape mode with WindowSoftkeysVisibleHint