Minimizing borderless dialog issue - c++

I want to minimize the borderless modal dialog so it should stay in the taskbar. The problem is, the dialog minimized to the bottom of the screen:
Screenshot:
Code:
setWindowFlags(Qt::Dialog | Qt::FramelessWindowHint);
setWindowModality(Qt::ApplicationModal);
this->setWindowState(Qt::WindowMinimized);
Also, this dialog is not the main window, so I think it should minimize them both when clicking minimize in the dialog and the issue is present in another non borderless modal dialog.
Screenshot with minimized modal dialog with borders:
I use Qt 5.9.2 on Windows 10. How to fix this issue? Thanks in advance.

So the issue has been fixed by removing parent or setting it to nullptr. Thanks to #Felix information, this is not a bug in Qt, it's default Windows behavior.

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I have an application which has Propertysheet dialog box with PropertyPage and dialogbox has three button at the bottom.
PropertySheet and PropertyPage create using MFC CProperySheet and CpropertyPage.
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Let me clarify:
Are you embedding property sheet in a dialog?
If yes:
Is there any reason to do so?
The buttons you mention belong to a dialog or property sheet?
Are you resizing property sheet?
If buttons belong to the dialog are they cut by the bottom of the dialog?
The best if you post a snapshot of the dialog from XP and 7.

Hide main MFC window while modal dialog is active?

I have a native C++ MFC app. It has a main window based on CWnd, and user action can create a modal dialog. While the dialog is active, I want the main window to disappear, the dialog to be visible, and the main window's icon to remain in the task bar.
How can I accomplish this?
If I hide the main window (ShowWindow(SW_HIDE)), the task bar icon disappears. If I minimize the main window (SW_MINIMIZE), the icon remains. However, since the dialog is owned by the main window, this also hides the dialog.
After the dialog is created, clicking on the task bar icon makes the dialog visible. Naturally, I do not want to require the user to do this.
Even if I insert ShowWindow(SW_SHOW) in the dialog's OnInit handler, the dialog remains not visible. Spy++ shows that its visible bit is set, though. Same is true if I add SetWindowActive to OnInit.
I am not interested in changing the UI design. While the dialog is active, the user interacts only with it, and is not interested in anything in the main window. Therefore, the main window should disappear.
Using Windows VS2005 under WinXP32.
Well, in the block of code where you create the dialog and show it modal, you can do whatever you want to the main window of your app (show/hide) as long as you make the desktop window the parent of your dialog. Usually, the constructor for CDialog and derivatives takes a default argument of NULL for the parent window in which the framework ends up substituting AfxGetMainWnd(). Instead pass CWnd::GetDesktopWindow() as the parent of your dialog and then you should probably be able to hide your main window. However, you still might have a problem with the taskbar--but I'll let someone else give hints since I know nothing offhand about it.
In OnInitDialog, add following codes
//Set windows size zero, the windows disappear.
MoveWindow(0,0,0,0);
//If you want it invisible on taskbar. add following codes.
DWORD dwStyle = GetWindowLong(GetSafeHwnd(), GWL_EXSTYLE);
dwStyle &=~WS_EX_APPWINDOW;
dwStyle |= WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW;
SetWindowLong(GetSafeHwnd(), GWL_EXSTYLE, dwStyle);
You're fighting the OS. A modal dialog, by definition, disables but does not hide the "main" (parent) window. If you wanted another window, make a second one, but don't tell the OS to treat it as a modal dialog over the first window.
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I've created a popup window with SW_SHOWNA.
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Is there any way to catch the click on the title bar (or other technique) of the main window behind the popup window and to close the popup window?
thanks a lot!
mike.
Yes, just do it. I would however not react to the click, as it makes your behavior mouse-bound. From your description, it seems you want to close the popup on a window move, so trap that message (WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING) instead. This will catch keyboard-initiated moves as well.