wxWidgets create an app that lives on the desktop?

Is it possible, using wxWidget开发者_开发知识库s and C++, to create an application that will show on the desktop? What I mean, is that it would only display on the desktop, like Geektools, Rainmeter, etc.

Not out of the box.

You could try to get the HWND of the Desktop and create your own control in wxWidgets by deriving a class from wxControl or wxWindow and do the Drawing yourself. It is not that hard to do it :). You could even use wxHTMLWindow or wxWebConnect (3rdParty, based on Webkit) for that.

See GetDesktopWindow() for that:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633504(VS.85).aspx

Assuming you are on Windows. You have to check for your WindowManagers Documentation on Linux yourself though. If you are using KDE, I would suggest to use QT directly or the KDE API. Same for Gnome.

It would be easier to use the corresponding os/windowmanager api for that though.

Hope that helps.