[Qt-interest] Running multiple QApplications

[Nitin Mahajan]

HI!



----- Original Message ----
> From: Nitin Mahajan <nitinm76 at yahoo.com>
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 10:51:22
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Running multiple QApplications
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Ender EREL 
> > 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?

Can a QApp which is running as QWSServer also consume keyboard events before propagating them to the clients? How ?

regards

-Nitin

> 
> regards
> 
> -Nitin
> 
> 
> > -- 
> > Ender EREL
> > 
> > > regards
> > > 
> > > -Nitin
> > >> -- 
> > >> Ender EREL
> > >> _______________________________________________
> > >> Qt-interest mailing list
> > >> Qt-interest at trolltech.com
> > >> http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-interest
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >       New Email addresses available on Yahoo!
> > > Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail. 
> > > Hurry before someone else does!
> > > http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/
> > _______________________________________________
> > Qt-interest mailing list
> > Qt-interest at trolltech.com
> > http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-interest
> 
> 
> 
>       Get your preferred Email name!
> Now you can @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com. 
> http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/



      New Email addresses available on Yahoo!
Get the Email name you&#39;ve always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail. 
Hurry before someone else does!
http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/