[7.5] Native dialogs behind windows?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boris Popov [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: 20. elokuuta 2007 18:41
> To: VWNC
> Subject: [7.5] Native dialogs behind windows?
>
>
> Does anyone have a clue why native file dialogs often come up
> behind an active VisualWorks window? I can't seem to come up
> with a consistently reproducible case, but certainly I've
> been seeing this behavior for a while now on a variety of
> versions so I must not be alone here?
>
> Cheers!
>
> -Boris
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> the parent handle significantly reduced the risk that the dialog would
> end up under its parent window. Supplying the parent handle also for
> some reason corrected the Windows print dialog in XP from the old
> 98/2000 look to the XP look.
>
> HTH,
> Steve
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Boris Popov [mailto:[hidden email]]
> > Sent: 20. elokuuta 2007 18:41
> > To: VWNC
> > Subject: [7.5] Native dialogs behind windows?
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have a clue why native file dialogs often come up
> > behind an active VisualWorks window? I can't seem to come up
> > with a consistently reproducible case, but certainly I've
> > been seeing this behavior for a while now on a variety of
> > versions so I must not be alone here?
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > -Boris
> >
> > --
> > +1.604.689.0322
> > DeepCove Labs Ltd.
> > 4th floor 595 Howe Street
> > Vancouver, Canada V6C 2T5
> > http://tinyurl.com/r7uw4
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reinout Heeck [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: 20. elokuuta 2007 20:46
> To: VWNC
> Subject: Re: [7.5] Native dialogs behind windows?
>
>
>
> > That makes sense, however I'd expected that default behavior would
> > be to
> > at least try and find a handle to use if one wasn't passed
> explicitly
> > via the #for: API, say
> >
> > Window activeController view
>
>
> It does, using
>    Window currentWindow
>
>
> I looked at the references to the underlying shared and saw
>
> Window>>becomeInactive
>
> LockCurrentWindow critical:
> [CurrentWindow == self
> ifTrue: [CurrentWindow := nil]]
>
>
>
> This suggests that it only happens right after closing a window.
>
> Could it be that this problem only shows up if the native dialog is  
> opened in response to a preceding warning or choice dialog? I cannot  
> test it right now, no mswindows here.
>
>
>
> R
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>
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