Using setEnabled(false) on parent widgets disables all children

[blivrail]

Hello,

On the Qt 4.4 documentation, it states that if you set a parent widget (such as a QMainWindow) to disabled using setEnabled( false ), all children widgets are implicitly disabled.

Using this call, is there a way to keep one children widget enabled?

I know I can do something like this:

QList<QWidget*> list = parentWidget->findChildren<QWidget*>() ;
foreach( QWidget* w, list )
{
   w->setEnabled( false ) ;
}
childWidget->setEnabled( true ) ;

QList<QWidget*> list = parentWidget->findChildren<QWidget*>() ;
foreach( QWidget* w, list )
{
   w->setEnabled( false ) ;
}
childWidget->setEnabled( true ) ;

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But then I lose the existing enabled/disabled state of the widgets.

Thanks!