Always-On-Top Windows Problem

For a VW 7.4.1 based product, I successfully implemented the "always on
top" behavior for satellite control panels, tool palettes etc. This kind
of tool palettes is a common standard for desktop programs.

However, those child windows also stay on top of all other applications,
like browser, email client, word processor. This is rather annoying,
because one's desktop gets really "obfuscated" and our customers already
complain about that.

Does anybody know a hack to fix this?

Thanks in advance,
Andre

We do this by maintaining a list of child-windows in the parent, and
when the parent becomes the active window
it raises its child windows (window raise).
There can be a short time during which the parent window IS on top, but
then the child windows come up.
Works well.  We even added the ability to delay the "window raise" of a
child so the user could work with the
parent window and then when the user stopped typing, clicking, for "n"
seconds, the child window would pop up.

Andre Schnoor wrote:
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