How to use live tiles with Qt 5.7 in Windows 10?

[daljit97]

I was wondering if there was any way to implement Windows Live Tiles feature in a Qt 5.7 application (updating them from the app). I have looked at the documentation, but there isn't seem to be any API for what I want.

[raven-worx]

@daljit97
see QTBUG-35991

[daljit97]

@raven-worx Hmm so there is no API for that for now. Do you know if this will be/is implemented in Qt 5.8?

[raven-worx]

@daljit97
see the bug report. Once it is solved you will see the version it will be in.

[daljit97]

@raven-worx Thank you, but I would really like to know an estimated date for this, since I need to decide if this is going to be fixed in time. Otherwise, I might need to take into consideration not using Qt for my project.

[raven-worx]

@daljit97
i personally doubt that it will be included in Qt 5.8.
But this can only be answered by the assigned developer. Or ask it on the Qt dev mailing list.

[SGaist]

Hi,

Given that the feature freeze append today, it won't be before 5.9 at least.

However that doesn't stop from implementing it in your software. If you do so, you could even consider providing a patch to improve the QtWindowsExtras module :)

[daljit97]

@SGaist said in How to use live tiles with Qt 5.7 in Windows 10?:

Hi,

Given that the feature freeze append today, it won't be before 5.9 at least.

However that doesn't stop from implementing it in your software. If you do so, you could even consider providing a patch to improve the QtWindowsExtras module :)

Hmm yeah I could look into building a C++ wrapper, even though I believe that might take a considerable amount of time. Is there any already working example that interact with the native live tiles API?

[SGaist]

Take a look at Microsoft's documentation. You'll likely find there an example in C++