My first qt question: how can I convert a MDIsubwindow to popup windows back and forc

Hi all , I am new here.
What I want to do is:
I have a MDI app in page mode. I want user can select a page and change that window into popup window(parent as desktop) so he can drag it out side of MDI app window.
Also I want that popup window can be converted back to one page of MDI window.

Does anyone know how can I do this?
Thanks.



I am using QT 4.4.3

see QMdiArea::removeSubWindow(), QMdiSubWindow::widget() etc

Tks.
It is kind of works.
I remove the QMdiSubWindow to another mdiarea in another qmainwindow.
Then before the new window close I addSubWindow it back to mdiarea again.
It works fine in Window but in MAC, it never come back. New tab added but when I click that tab nothing(just gray area) displayed. If I switch to another page this page's header just be gray out.

Any hint?
THanks again.

Can we see the code?

Sure.
When I need to move the MDIsubWindow to desktop:

Code:

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QMdiArea *area = new QMdiArea();
	QMdiSubWindow *subWin = this->mdiArea->activeSubWindow();
// I did try to remove this subwin from mdiArea first but not difference
	area->addSubWindow(subWin);
	XSubWindow *win = new XSubWindow();
	win->setMdiArea(area);
	win->show();
	connect(win, SIGNAL(returnSubWindow(QMdiSubWindow*)), this, SLOT(getReturnedSubWindow(QMdiSubWindow*)));

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XSubWindow is just a QMainWindow with
closeEvent like

Code:

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void XSubWindow::closeEvent(QCloseEvent *event)
{
	emit returnSubWindow(this->mdiArea->activeSubWindow());
	event->accept();
 
}

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to handle the returnSubWindow in main MDI window:

Code:

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void MainWindow::getReturnedSubWindow(QMdiSubWindow *rwin)
{
	this->mdiArea->addSubWindow(rwin);
 
}

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The content of MDIsubWindow is ether a WEBkit window:

Code:

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XWebWidget *child = new XWebWidget;
	child->setWindowTitle("Demo");
    mdiArea->addSubWindow(child);

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or
QGraphicsScene only contains a picture.

Code:

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QGraphicsScene scene;
    scene.setSceneRect(-300, -300, 600, 600);
    scene.setItemIndexMethod(QGraphicsScene::NoIndex);
 
	QGraphicsView *view = new QGraphicsView;
	view->setWindowTitle("Demo Bid Page");
	view->setRenderHint(QPainter::Antialiasing);
    view->setBackgroundBrush(QPixmap(":/images/demo.jpg"));
 
    mdiArea->addSubWindow(view);

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No one knows?

without looking at your code in too much detail:
probably your window does get closed after adding it to the other QMDiArea.
Try ignoring (or if that does not work: filtering) the close event.

HTH