How to bring child Qt::Tool windows back on top after main window gets focus again

Here is my situation: I have a main window that spawns many child Qt:Tool type widgets windows that work nicely until they are covered by other applications, or the main window is minimized. Once I restore the main window or give it focus, I would like these child windows to be visible (on top) again, but instead the remain buried under windows of other applications. Is there a simple way to manage this an keep their original stacking order?

One easy solution could be to put your widgets (which are currently set as tool windows) inside a QDialog and set it as a tool window.

Did you use the Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint flag when constructing the tool windows?

That flag doesn't do what I want. If you use that, your tool windows always stay on top, even when your main application window is minimized. I want my tool windows to appear and dissapear when my main window does, and not show as seperate windows on the taskbar either.

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Originally Posted by Chicken Blood Machine

Did you use the Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint flag when constructing the tool windows?

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The tool windows aren't really tool windows in the classic sense. They can be quite large, and you might have 20 or more of them open at once. I wanted to do a frameless layout where these windows can be floating anywhere on the desktop (see below), but are still linked to the main application window in tems of minimize/restore. I believe Adobe Photoshop and similar programs have the same type of behavior with their tool windows.

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Originally Posted by jpn

One easy solution could be to put your widgets (which are currently set as tool windows) inside a QDialog and set it as a tool window.

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http://www.openecu.org/images/5/50/E...Screenshot.png

Update: I solved the problem.

I had changed some other code which was making these tool windows have a NULL parent. This is what was causing the strange decoupled behavior.

Colby