JUCE app always on top of all windows

General JUCE discussion
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Hi,

Is there a simply way to have my JUCE app always be on top of all other windows (even when it is not focused)?

I am working on a plugin and I am also compiling a standalone version which I would like to be able to set to always stay on top of other windows. That way, when I have my DAW open, I can use the DAW while still seeing/using the standalone plugin on top.

I understand that this is not possible for plugins but was wondering if it would work only for the standalone plugin which is a DocumentWindow component.

Thanks in advance!

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Have you tried the setAlwaysOnTop method on your DocumentWindow?

AFAIK it is supposed to do that.

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Thanks for the reply nicolasdanet! The DocumentWindow was not exposed for me to access because it is the StandaloneFilterWindow for the StandalonePluginHolder. Luckily I am rolling out my own version of the these classes so I was able to add a static function in the StandaloneFilterWindow class to get the instance (similar to the StandalonePluginHolder). Now I’m able to call StandaloneFilterWindow::getInstance()->setAlwaysOnTop(true) which works!