Posted by
Blair McGlashan on
Mar 22, 2004; 11:51am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Hidden-dialog-tp3370098p3370111.html
"Ian Bartholomew" <
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> I've just noticed the following slight annoyance on 5.1.4 under Windows
> XP.
>
> Start up a clean 5.1.4 image and then, before the splash screen has
> disappeared, press the close button on the SystemFolder. I end up with
> a screen that is waiting for me to answer the "Do you want to save the
> image" dialog - but I can't as the dialog is not visible.
>
> Selecting "Please confirm" on the task bar gets the dialog visible
> again.
>
Sorry Ian, can't reproduce this. Whenever I try once the splash screen goes
away the prompt to save the image is visible.
A potential cause is that the system exit prompt is opened modally without
specifying the shell to which it is to be modal. This normally works
satisfactorily because the default is to open modal to the active view,
which one would expect to be the one from which one issued the 'exit'
command. Perhaps the splash screen is interfering with this, although I
would have expected that the action of clicking the close button the system
folder would have made the system folder active.
I have noticed a general issue on XP relating to the z-order of modal
dialogs that are opened modal to windows that are not in the foreground at
the time. It seems that sometimes the view comes to the foreground,
sometimes not. Its probably related to the active application at the time,
but I haven't researched it other than having a vague memory of having read
something about it in the MSDN documentation for SetForegroundWindow or some
such.
Regards
Blair