[Interest] Find frontmost widget of specific type?

[Israel Brewster]

I have an application (Qt 5.9) that has a variety of different types of windows you can open. If a user selects to open a type of window that is already open, I want to position the new window relative to the existing one. I can easily find any existing windows of a given type by going through the list of widgets in QApplication::allWidgets(), doing a qobject_cast to the proper type, and checking the result, but is there a way to determine which of these is the frontmost of that type? QApplication::ActiveWindow() doesn't help, because the activeWindow may not be of that type.

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