[Partially-Solved] Making a window snap to the desktop's borders(& resize desktop)

[rdrey]

Hi guys!

Here it comes, my first post out of hopefully many more:

I want to write a sort of Statbar, that snaps to one of the desktop's borders and decreases the size of the remaining desktop for other applications.

How would you go about doing that?

PS: another little question: is it easy to make QT windows transparent/translucent?

Thanks for the reply

Greets from Cape Town
Rainer