Show dialog on top of all other windows

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Is there a way to show the dialog from dialog.showMessageBox() on top of everything?

For example, I'm woking on the notepad and given some event in my Electron application it will open a dialog that should now be the main window for the user to see.

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3 Answers

It's kinda ugly but you can pass a dummy holder browserwindow which is always on top.

dialog.showMessageBox(
  new BrowserWindow({
    show: false,
    alwaysOnTop: true
  }),
  {
    type: 'question',
    message: 'is on top'
  }
)
user_25501560 
const { remote } = require("electron")
dialog.showMessageBox(**remote.getCurrentWindow()**, [options])

Set the first parameter

user_144968310

For many use cases, the correct approach will be to pass the existing main window to showMessageBox:

dialog.showMessageBox(mainWindow, dialogOpts)

This will make the message box a modal of the main window. The user will need to close the modal before being able to continue using the main window.

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