[Qt-interest] qApp->alert() and alerting my parent window

[Oliver Demetz]

Hi!

I am developping an app for MS Windows.

My application opens several windows, each one being opened by another 
one, with clean parent-child relarionships.

Say now my MainWidget opens a ChildWidget

MainWidget::openChildWidget()
{
     ChildWidget * w = new ChildWidget;
     w->setWindowFlags(Qt::Window);
     w->setParent(this);
     w->setAttribute(Qt::WA_ShowModal);
     w->show();
}

Ok. Now for some reason, in my ChildWidget the user shall be referred 
back to the MainWidget, which is its parent. But I do not want to close 
the ChildWidget, I just wanna inform the user like : "Its here, in the 
background."

What I found is the static method

     QApplication::alert(QWidget * widget, int msec = 0)

which looks perfect.
But it can just let the taskbar entry flash, not the window bar.

Calling

     qApp->alert(this->parentWidget())

in the ChildWidget does nothing, because the ChildWidget does not have 
an own task bar entry.

Maybe changing the palette of the parent?

Any help is appreciated,
Thanks in advance,
Olli