[Qt-interest] How to make a QDockWidget behave more like a toplevel widget

[Bo Thorsen]

Hi David,

Den 26-08-2010 18:24, David Boosalis skrev:
> Sorry for the resend, I edited out the "not" in my second issue below
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:22 AM, David Boosalis
> <david.boosalis at gmail.com <mailto:david.boosalis at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     When I drag a dock widget from its main window and place it on the
>     screen and then click on another widget the doc window will
>     disappear.  I'd like to cancel this behaviour.  Is there a flag I
>     can set for this.

Have you tried setting the Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint window flag on the 
dock widget?

>     Also in my main window I  (edited  not out) want my dock widgets to
>     be tabbed only, but sometimes on startup I get nested dock widgets.
>     Even though I explicitly set
>     QMainWindow::setDockOptions(QMainWindow::ForceTabbedDocks).  Anyone
>     else seen this behavior ? Is it a bug ?

Sounds like it :( I hope you can find the time to make a small self 
contained example application and enter a bug report.

Bo Thorsen,
Fionia Software.

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