RE: Modeless dialogs on Win32

Subject: RE: Modeless dialogs on Win32
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 00:59:34 CDT

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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Bruce Pearson wrote:

> In my opinion the modeless dialogs should always stay on top of the current
> active frame.
>
> Try the following on Win32 (Maybe the same on Linux).
>
> 1) Open a document full screen.
> 2) Select word count dialog.
> 3) Click somewhere on the document.
>
> The word count dialog has disappeared.
>
> Now try the same with the Insert symbol dialog on Win32.
>
> Dialog is always on top allowing a symbol to be easily inserted when ever we
> want.
>

This is a window manager preference setting in unix. You choose the
behaviour you want. All the Modeless dialogs on unix behave the same way.

Cheers

Martin

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