DocumentWindow z-order Question

[ishinomaru]

I found this post while searching through the past Forum and it solved this problem for me!

Tip : Make a window float above application but not system

We emulate this behaviour with the Tracktion plugin windows by using a timer and checking Process::isForegroundProcess. If the state changes you can hide/show the relevant windows.

I inherited the juce::Timer class from PluginWindow and implemented timerCallback() as follows.

void timerCallback() override {
    if (Process::isForegroundProcess()) {
        if (!isAlwaysOnTop()) {
            setAlwaysOnTop(true);
            setVisible(true);
        }
    } else {
        if (isAlwaysOnTop()) {
            setAlwaysOnTop(false);
            setVisible(false);
        }
    }
}