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 this I have code like this:

widget->raise();
widget->activateWindow();
widget->showNormal();

It's starting to feel like I'm missing a shortcut function. Surely this type of behaviour is quite common. Is there some preferred function that will do all of the above and/or just do the right thing on each target OS?

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Note: I've just noticed a defect, thus a special function is even more important now. If the window is minimized, activateWindow does not work. This happens even if you reorder the above to showNormal first.

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.