I've enabled editing, that is not the point. Modal dialog wont fit, what I'm trying to do looks like editing selected text in MS Word via tiny bar floating over selected text (there are several text alignment buttons, font size and font family pickers and so on), it becomes fully opaque when mouse hoovers over it and transparent when not. My problem is that when I create QWidget inside QGraphicsTextItem subclass and show() it, QGraphicsTextItem looses focus and editing stops (at least it looks like it stops because text cursor dissapears and dashed frame around QGraphicsTextItem becomes invisible, and focusOutEvent is called), how can I avoid interruption of editing process after I created QWidget and poped it up above the Item?