@Munchausen - were you able to install and run HiQDock on 64bit Haiku ?
Just wanted to comment that installing this older qt4 lib doesnāt conflict / clash with qt5 and qt6 libraries that maybe installed on your system.
Yes it works! Just add the repo and then pkgman install hiqdock. I have not done any customisation yet
It does seem to crash at poweroff, though.
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Great news - canāt wait to see more after you customize it!
Regarding the crash at shutdown - I believe itās something on the qt side of things.
Iām hoping to find some time to start developing this again - the more interest I see on the forum, the more motivation I will have to get back into it.
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Would love to try it out, once you get this working with current Qt and current libraries available (even the Qt4 package needs older packages for libraries long updated by now). 
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Are any source codes for HiQdock available?
@theokeist - as of now - Iām still keeping the source code for HiQDock closed. Iām planning to eventually port the code to run using Qt6 instead of the Qt4. From my initial quick look at the upgrade to Qt6, it does not seem trivial.
May I ask as to your interest in the source code ?
@theokeist No - this is not an issue with Haiku - it is an issue with my HiQDock - the best way to use this Dock app is to check the checkbox for auto hide (āAutomatically hide and show the Dockā).
(the problem stems from that fact that since Haiku does not yet support window transparency, so my app āfakesā window transparency by taking a screen shot of the screen - but that āscreen shotā is not refreshed unless youāre in auto-hide mode - as soon as the Dock is hidden and just before itās raised, it takes a screenshot of the current screen and then draws the Dock over that screenshot to create the illusion of transparency (transparent background)
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Alright in that case. What is missing in Haiku from allowing usage of transparency then?
About a year and a half later and a lot of help from AI 
ā¦ itās finally compiling and running with Qt6 (6.7.3) libraries!!!
There are quite a few regression bugs when changing the dock config options (size/screen-position/adding or removing launchers) a lot of things can go wrong and you need to quit and restart the dock. But itās definitely quite useable now in āauto-hideā mode.
One major bug thatās fixed is that quitting or shutting down doesnāt have a crash (actually a memory leak on my part) 
I hope to work on releasing a beta HPKG next week (never did that before so expect some calls for assistance)
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Congratulations. Well thats finally some good news 
, Iāve been looking forward to this, as many people were. Hope you will find this bug as soon as possible, so we can enjoy beta 
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Looking forward on testing it, also how it behaves on Qt6.9.0 (not enbabled because some issues need fixing for qt-multimedia).
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Great news HiQDock fans!!!
Thanks to @Begasus for inspiring me to update the code to run with Qt6!!! It wasnāt trivial 
A new 64bit package (using Qt6.7.2) is available here (not hosted yet on a repo)
@lelldorin - please feel free to add to besly
I hope itās a little better than the current qt4 version (some bugs fixed such as no crash on quit or shutdown, but the big known window transparency issue is still thereā¦ I plan to try to move the context menu and tool tip to external separate windows so I donāt need the dock main window to take up so much space)
(Please note you will have to uninstall the current qt4 version of the HiQDock if itās installed already)
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Why it is not in the market?
Thereās an issue that Iām seeing on VM that @Begasus saw using Qt6.9, but Iām using 6.7.2 where the settings and change icon windows donāt show any content inside 
(It doesnāt happen for me on a bare metal real machine) ???
Ok - I figured out the strange VM issue (Mac VMWare Fusion)
Works with this display configuration:
But not with this display configuration:
Maybe you had the same issue @Begasus ?
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For me this is on bare metal, so not a configuration from a VM.
You can download it directly at the github above:
hiqdock-distro/hiqdock-1.0.0-1-x86_64.hpkg.zip at main Ā· hey68you/hiqdock-distro Ā· GitHub
itās not available in a known Haiku repository (yet, I guess I have to ask BeSly to add it)
@humdinger - question ā should I start a new forum topic for this new version discussion or maybe edit the post title to reflect that HiQDock beta for Qt6 is available ?
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