How to set focus to a QWidget, on a different window - c++

Question

I have created two QPushButton on two different QMainWindow. I am assigning focus to them randomly at a specific interval.Here is the code.
int main(int argc, char **argv){
QApplication a(argc, argv);
QMainWindow *win1= new QMainWindow();
win1->resize(567,578);
win1->move(67,30);
win1->show();
QMainWindow *win2= new QMainWindow();
win2->resize(567,578);
win2->move(97,580);
win2->show();
win1->show();
//win2->setModal(true);
QPushButton *but1 = new QPushButton(win1);
but1->resize(80,20);
but1->move(100,100);
but1->setText("1");
but1->show();
QPushButton *but2 = new QPushButton(win2);
but2->resize(80,20);
but2->move(100,300);
but2->setText("2");
but2->show();
while(1){
if((rand()%2) == 1){
//win2->lower();
win1->raise();
win1->activateWindow();
win1->setWindowState(Qt::WindowActive);
win1->setFocus(Qt::ActiveWindowFocusReason);
but1->setFocus(Qt::ActiveWindowFocusReason);
}
else{
//win1->lower();
win2->raise();
win2->activateWindow();
win2->setFocus(Qt::ActiveWindowFocusReason);
but2->setFocus(Qt::ActiveWindowFocusReason);
}
qApp->processEvents(0x00);
sleep(2);
}
But the problem is the title bar of the first window is not changing color(usually putting a window back-n-forth through the visual stack changes the color of the title-bar), even when it has become the top window visually

Answer 1

You will obtain the desired behavious if you change your last loop to something similar:
while (1) {
// Exits if both windows are closed
if (!win1->isVisible() && (!win2->isVisible())) {
return 0;
}
// Eventually changes the focus, if the desired window is still visible
if((rand() % 2) == 1) {
if (win1->isVisible()) {
QApplication::setActiveWindow(win1);
}
}
else {
if (win2->isVisible()) {
QApplication::setActiveWindow(win2);
}
}
QTime now;
now.start();
do {
qApp->processEvents(0x00);
} while (now.elapsed() < 2000);
}
Anyway, if you put your program to sleep, it will not respond to user input during that interval, so be careful.
The implementation is quite ugly, but it checks if the windows to be focused is still visible (i.e. the user has not closed it) and eventually exits if both have been closed.
Of course I suppose that you were only interested in the setActiveWindow() thing, so I've not spent much time in writing something beautiful!