Hi

I have developed a distributed application using QT for windows as front end.
I am using a single QT widget. Obviously when the user opens some other window, my application goes in the background.

Now in case some data is received from the socket i want to bring my QT widget in front of the user.

How is that possible?

Thank you

This is not generally possible with Qt, as reordering windows that belong to another program is deliberately disallowed in most OSes. You may need to use the Windows API directly to do this (I doubt it would be that hard once you find out the HWND).

A more portable approach (and less invasive to the user) is to flash the window (or beep, or even open a popup window) to inform the user that new data has arrived. Then they can choose if they want to switch to your window or not.

You can also mark a window as “always on top” if you want it to be always visible (Windows Task Manager does this, for instance; the user can still iconify the application, or shade it on X-based systems).

Thankz for your advice rjlee..otherwise i would have wasted my time on trying to achieve this.

I have another question..you have seen the instant messengers shades the im windows whenever a message is received and incase they r not focused... how can i do dat in QT?