Disabling "always on top" for online help
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mzjn
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Disabling "always on top" for online help
The help window is not modal, but it is always "on top" of he editor window. This can be rather irritating when switching between working in the editor and reading the help text. I would appreciate an option to disable this behaviour. Thanks.
/MJ
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sorin_ristache
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- Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 2:12 pm
Hello,
This is the standard behavior of the help dialog in most applications. Usually the user reads one or more help topics and then closes the dialog when he returns to the editor window. If he applies a procedure he needs both the help dialog and the main editor window visible at the same time, so he just resizes the dialog and moves it outside the editor window. The reason for all the dialogs displayed on top of the main editor window is in the Java AWT architecture: a Java dialog cannot be displayed behind the owner frame of that dialog. Anyway the dialog is not displayed on top of every other dialog, for example the Find/Replace dialog is displayed over the Help one if the help is already visible when Find/Replace is invoked and a click in the Help dialog switches their order. If the help content is displayed in a separate frame instead of a dialog then the main editor frame can be displayed on top of it but there is another problem: sometimes when the help frame is invoked the main editor frame comes on top immediately after the help frame is displayed. The current solution is more acceptable until we solve the help frame problem.
Regards,
Sorin
This is the standard behavior of the help dialog in most applications. Usually the user reads one or more help topics and then closes the dialog when he returns to the editor window. If he applies a procedure he needs both the help dialog and the main editor window visible at the same time, so he just resizes the dialog and moves it outside the editor window. The reason for all the dialogs displayed on top of the main editor window is in the Java AWT architecture: a Java dialog cannot be displayed behind the owner frame of that dialog. Anyway the dialog is not displayed on top of every other dialog, for example the Find/Replace dialog is displayed over the Help one if the help is already visible when Find/Replace is invoked and a click in the Help dialog switches their order. If the help content is displayed in a separate frame instead of a dialog then the main editor frame can be displayed on top of it but there is another problem: sometimes when the help frame is invoked the main editor frame comes on top immediately after the help frame is displayed. The current solution is more acceptable until we solve the help frame problem.
Regards,
Sorin