Auto close QMessageBox

Question

I\'m building a Qt Symbian Project and I want to show a notification for the user that should auto close after some seconds. I have seen that Nokia uses this a lot in their

Answer 1

I would suggest to subclass QMessageBox to add your own desired behavior...

It would be interesting to add methods like setAutoClose(bool) and setAutoCloseTimeout(int) and trigger a QTimer on showEvent when the AutoClose option is enabled !

This way, you could even alter the apparence of your QMessageBox and had a text saying "This box will close automatically in XXX seconds..." or a progress bar, etc...