Display QWindow in a MainWindow

Question

I am trying to render a QOpenGLContext to a QWindow. The goal is to use this QWindow in another MainWindow. Is it possible to display a QWindow inside another Qt program's MainWindow?

I think you can't, but maybe you can use a QWidget instead of the inner QWindow — Thomas Ayoub, Dec 04 '13 at 08:16

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

Well, if you are trying to open an extra window from your application's MainWindow, you could check this post, it is a nice guide on the topic. Also this Stackoverflow post could help.

In his comment, @Samoth told you that's not possible to open a window inside another one, and he's right. But I think that you only want to open a new window from the starting one (in that case, see the links above).

Display QWindow in a MainWindow

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