Mainscreen Active Window State Trouble

[Crag_Hack]

Hi I am having a small problem with my main window class derived from QMainWindow. I am trying to test if the window is active with keyboard focus using the following code. I want to show notification area messages when it's not active. The only problem is the code fires even when the mainwindow is active. Any ideas?

if (!(windowState().testFlag(Qt::WindowActive)))
        if (notifications)
        {
            QIcon icon(":/images/icons/rep.ico");
            trayIcon->showMessage("Rep", message, icon, 500);
        }

[Fuel]

@Crag_Hack said in Mainscreen Active Window State Trouble:

Qt::WindowActive

You cant check if QWindow::isActive() returns true? Another Solution i found would be

bool MainWindow::event(QEvent * e) // overloading event(QEvent*) method of QMainWindow 
{
    switch(e->type())
    {
        // ...

        case QEvent::WindowActivate :
            // gained focus
            break ;

        case QEvent::WindowDeactivate :
            // lost focus
            break ;
        // ...
    } ;
    return QMainWindow::event(e) ;
}

[Crag_Hack]

Thanks Fuel. IsActiveWindow() didn't work so I just used ishidden() and isminimized() which isn't perfect but good enough for now. I'll try the event overload when I have time.