Steal the focus from a full screen app in Mac OS X

Cesius

Hi!

I want to open a file dialog on top and it works setting the Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint flag. The problem is that if there is other application running on full screen my dialog doesn't get the focus.

How could I do it?

Thanks.

SGaist

Hi,

What version of Qt are you using ? Running on which version of OS X ?

Can you show a minimal code sample the shows the behavior ?

Cesius

Hi SGaist,

I´m using Qt 5.3 running on OS X 10.9. I can´t show you the code because I´m not at work but I found that calling raise() after show() sets my dialog as the active window.

The problem is that after closing the dialog, the previous active app doesn´t recover the focus unlike on Windows.

Could a good approach be getting the PID of the active app before showing the dialog and setting that app as the active one after closing it? I could do it with applescripts. Do you think there´s an easier way?

Thanks.

SGaist

Which version of 5.3 ?

Do you mean your own application doesn't get the focus back ?

Cesius

My app needs to collaborate with browsers in order to upload files selected by the user. The workflow is:

The browser is on top and the user clicks on our website

The Qt app displays a file dialog on top

The user select the files he wants to upload

The browser recovers the focus and the app upload the files on the background

If the browser is not on full screen mode, it works fine. The problem is that with full screen mode I need to raise the dialog to be displayed on top and after the user select the files it doesn´t get back to the browser.

On Windows this issue doesn´t exist. Despite being on full screen the dialog is displayed on top but on OS X the behaviour is different.

I´d need to check it tomorrow but I think the version is 5.3.1