[Interest] Qt5: Can tooltip popups be prevented from raising the window?

[Sérgio Martins]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Phil Weinstein <philw at indra.com> wrote:
> This is apparently a change from Qt4 to Qt5.  (We're using Qt 5.5.1).  When
> hovering over a GUI control having a Tooltip, at the moment the Tooltip is
> shown, the window containing that control is RAISED.  This is very
> undesirable, potentially obscuring the window the user is trying to work
> with, just as a result of moving the mouse out of the way.
>
> I don't know this to be relevant, but I'd like to mention that we DO like to
> use the strangely-named Qt::WA_AlwaysShowToolTips widget attribute.
> Tooltips on visible widgets in a partially obscured window should work
> (regardless of the window not being the active window).
>
> Can this "new" (Qt5) window popup behavior be prevented?
>
> This question was asked, but not addressed, on this stackoverflow.com post
> (relative to Qt 5.4.2):
>
> Qt tooltip brings window to front when it is being shown
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30801093/qt-tooltip-brings-window-to-front-when-it-is-being-shown
>
> Thank you in advance.

Hi,

Here's a fix that works for me: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/177376/

Regards,
Sergio Martins