[Qt-interest] a Notification Widget under OSX

[Martin Guillon]

Hi,

I need a little help with a specific use of  QMainWindow.
My aim is to create a Notification System similar to Growl for my application.

I have it running very well under Window. I simply create, from my QT application(which is a simple trayicon and a core),  a QMainWindow with no parent, Then I set

setWindowFlags(Qt::FramelessWindowHint | Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint | Qt::SubWindow);
setAttribute(Qt::WA_ShowWithoutActivating);

Then When I show the notification I do
Show();
Raise();

It works very very well on windows because the notification doesn't take the focus so it doesn't stop what I am doing. And the notif is still raised so I get enter and leave event so I can do pretty things.

The problem appears on OSX, I cannot find a way to reproduce that behavior. With such a code I get no mouse enter or leave event because the window is not really raised (because of Qt::WA_ShowWithoutActivating I presume)
Now If I raise the notification on OSX, the I get the events but the notification window gets the focus and so it stops what I am working on.

If anyone sees a way to reproduce the behavior I have on windows under OSX, It would be quite amazing

Thanks in advance
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