Qt correct way to show/display/raise window

Question

Quite often I find that I need to show and bring a window to a front. For example when the user attempts to reload the same document I simply bring up the old one. To do thi

Answer 1

this is a working "shortcut" :

widget->setWindowState(Qt::WindowActive) ;

You can couple it with the last Qt::WindowState of the window. This notation is not very explicit though.

Answer 2

No need for such complication. This is enough :

widget->raise();
widget->show();

By the way, you can call show() once, and unless you hide() it, there are no needs to call show() again.