[PyQt] Dialog behaves as a window

Doug Bell dougb at bellz.org
Tue Jan 20 02:12:09 GMT 2009


Frédéric wrote:
> With PyGTK, from glade, it is possible to choose the behaviour of a dialog, 
> so it is managed as the main window.
> 
> Depending of the window manager, it has more or less effects. For example, 
> under KDE, it is not created over the main window, but side by side (if 
> there is enough space). The more interesting change is under Nokia/maemo, 
> where the dialog can takes all the screen space (and can even be switch 
> fullscreen); it is also possible to bring back the main window in front of 
> it, which is not possible if the dialog has its default behaviour.
> 
> I didn't find a way to do this with Qt/PyQT. Is it possible? How?

Yes.  Look for QWidget.setWindowFlags(Qt.Window) in the docs.

Doug.


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