Embed an external application to the widget

[bpetty]

any way to perform such an embedding under window$ ???
Qt is cross-platform isn't it?

Sorry for reopening... but I find this to be a good question. How does one do this under Windows? I assume QX11EmbedWidget will obviously only work under X11.

And one more question since I have not used QX11Embed*, can I use these classes to essentially attach my Qt app to another window... to basically doc mine to the side for example?

[rbp]

How does one do this under Windows? I assume QX11EmbedWidget will obviously only work under X11.

I'm also wondering this - is it possible to embed an external application under Windows? Or only for Linux?
Richard

[leenxkewl]

I am just hanging to this thread, because I also have a problem with this. I am trying to embed xterm in a QDockWidget. All that I need is the wid. When passing the wid to embedClient(..) manually (via xwininfo -int) it works perfectly, but I don't see any good way of getting that wid? Ideas?

[wysota]

QWidget::winId()

[leenxkewl]

Yeah, but I mean the wid from the external application, not my own widget.

[wysota]

Just run xterm with "-into X" where X is the winId returned by the window you wish to embed xterm into.

[leenxkewl]

I tried exactly this, but xterm opens in a separate window.

edit:
Here's some code:

Shell::Shell(QWidget *parent)
: QDockWidget(parent)
{
setObjectName("Shell");
setWindowTitle("Shell");

QWidget *widget=new QWidget(this);
setWidget(widget);

process=new QProcess(this);
process->start("xterm -into "+QString((int)widget->winId()));
widget->show();
}

edit2:
I made a screenshot for you, so you can understand what I am trying to achieve:

[wysota]

It fails because your QString "cast" fails. Look that there is no QString constructor taking a sole int as a parameter.

[leenxkewl]

Oh hehe, sorry fur bugging you. Anyways, isn't there a solution to implement any foreign window?

[wysota]

As far as I know, there is no such solution.