How keep a QWidget always on top?

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I have two buttons on my QMainWindow. One to btnShowKb and another btnHideKb. When i press btnShowKb it shows an QWidget. I want this QWidget always to be on top of all windows till I press btnHideKb. When its on top, I want both QWidget and QMainWidget be activated.

Can anybody suggest on this?

You can't (reliably) steal focus in windows. – J-16 SDiZ Feb 10 '11 at 01:17 — J-16 SDiZ, Feb 10 '11 at 01:17

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 15 '19 at 21:08

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Setting the setWindowFlags() with Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint is meant to help.

https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.7/qt.html#WindowType-enum

https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.7/widgets-windowflags.html

edited Apr 15 '19 at 21:08

Vaidotas Strazdas

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answered Jun 21 '11 at 14:55

Phil Hannent

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Thanks, also the code is shown in this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2855968/how-do-i-toggle-always-on-top-for-a-qmainwindow-in-qt – Aquarius_Girl Feb 15 '12 at 08:59

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 17 '16 at 15:19

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Nokia was so yesterday...

New link: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-widgets-windowflags-example.html

and the line of code you might be looking for:

mainMenu->setWindowFlags(Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint);

answered Oct 17 '16 at 15:19

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How keep a QWidget always on top?

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