[Qt-interest] Running multiple QApplications

[Nitin Mahajan]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Ender EREL <erelender at yahoo.com>
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 13:00:13
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Running multiple QApplications
> 
> Nitin Mahajan wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----
> >> From: Ender EREL 
> >> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 17:13:00
> >> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Running multiple QApplications
> >>
> >> Colin S. Miller wrote:
> >>> Nitin Mahajan wrote:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I want to run two QApplications simultaneously on Qt for embedded 
> >>>> Linux using frame buffer.
> >>>>
> >>>> I always want to keep one of the application windows in foreground, 
> >>>> even if I click into the other window.
> >>>> Can I get some pointers towards this?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks in advance 
> >>> Nitin,
> >>> Do you want
> >>> 1) the first application window to be always-on-top,
> >>>    allowing the user to interact with the other window, but
> >>>    the second window is (partially) covered by the first
> >>>
> > This is what I want.
> > 
> >>> or
> >>> 2) When the user clicks on the second window, the
> >>>    focus is automatically moved back to the first window?
> >>>
> >>> Colin S. Miller
> >> Or, Do you want
> >> 1 ) Two seperate QApplications ( two event loops etc.)
> > 
> > Can you provide some pointers to some documentation to read more about this 
> scenario and it's effects?
> > 
> 
> No i can't :) I haven't tried anything like this before, so i don't know 
> what the effects would be.
> 
> >> 2 ) Two seperate QMainWindows ( one QApplication, two toplevel windows)?
> > One QApplication, two top level windows. Both of them stay on screen for a 
> significant amount 
> > of time. What I mean to say that the second window is not as short lived as a 
> Dialog window. By 
> > looks it's almost another application.
> > 
> 
> You can have as much top-level windows as you want. It doesn't matter if 
> they are QMainWindows or QWidgets. One option for making one window stay 
> in the foreground is setting its Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint window flag. 
> But that will make it stay on top of all windows (not application-wise, 
> system-wise). I don't know if there exists an option for application-wise.
> 
> Best Regards
> 

1. Can Multiple QApps have keyboard focus at the same time?

2. Can the QApp in background have keyboard focus?

regards

-Nitin


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> > -Nitin
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