Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint related question

[Sofia]

Hi All,
I examined Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint flag of widget via Examples\Qt-5.9.1\widgets\widgets\windowflags application.
The window with such a flag stays always foreground even I click to the other, not mine, application.
It looks very strange. I need the window to be always shown on the screen but only inside my application. Not on the top of web-browser, Skype, mail and all-all-all applications on my computer!
Is there any way provided to achieve that?
Thank you!

[mrjj]

Hi
That is what WindowStaysOnTopHint does when the OS supports it.
You can use QDialog to open a window that will stay on top of mainwindow.
At least when its modal.

But what effect are you after ?

There are also http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdockwidget.html
which allowed to be embedded into main app but also floated and become a windows on its on.
Sort of like an old MDI app but with free windows.

[Sofia]

Thanks for your answer.
My application is an editor fundamentally (I mean UI) like Adobe Photoshop for example. It has working windows and auxiliary toolbars and panels.
I want toolbars and panels be always foreground for working windows.

It's so cool on Mac: Qt::Tool windows have foreground priority on Qt::Window windows.
"On macOS, tool windows correspond to the Floating class of windows. This means that the window lives on a level above normal windows making it impossible to put a normal window on top of it. "
I want to have the same on Windows!
Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint seems to do what I need, but my panels are ALWAYS stay on the screen for all applications. Who needs that?

Now I try to set and clean WindowStaysOnTopHint on QEvent::ApplicationActivate and QEvent::ApplicationDeactivate but I have a lot of weird side effects.!

[JonB]

@Sofia
The behaviour should already be what you desire under Windows, i.e. on top only of application window not other desktop windows. Show some of your code/window flags?

[Sofia]

Actually official qt's example \Qt5.9.1\Examples\Qt-5.9.1\widgets\widgets\windowflags is enough.
I'll try qt 5.9.2 now, but for 5.9.1 Qt::Window and Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint chosen in "windowflags" example application make resulting window to stay on the screen in spite of current active program.

[Sofia]

Qt support has helped me. Windows with WindowStaysOnTopHint really should always stay foreground on the screen. It's proper behaviour. So the following code made my goal:

connect(qApp, SIGNAL(applicationStateChanged(Qt::ApplicationState)), this, SLOT(doStaysOnTopFlagProcessing(Qt::ApplicationState)));

void MyToolbar::doStaysOnTopFlagProcessing(Qt::ApplicationState s)
{
//if (parentWidget()) return;
if (s == Qt::ApplicationActive) {
setWindowFlag(Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint);
show();
}
else {
setWindowFlag(Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint, false);
lower(); // or hide()
}
}