On Friday 30 October 2009 03:20:37 Henry Vermaak wrote: > 2009/10/29 Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]>: > > On 29/10/2009, SteveG <[email protected]> wrote: > >> eg - an alert msg/form to be forced to top/front every x seconds until > >> acknowledged. Needs to be brought to top/front again even if user > >> clicks on > > > > On a side note: > > Be warned, users HATE that! It would drive me nuts as well. > > Definitely. It's considered a Very Bad Thing and you'd probably also > find that sane window managers prevent other applications from > stealing the focus. Rather use the notification area for this (I > think there's a standard interface for it).
Have to agree with both here :) but in this case I have to override as its a dedicated touchscreen app, and anything I have to say is important :) Problems occur with touchscreens (especially when mobile) of multiple taps hiding things you dont even know happened. Being an embedded app system, the taskbar/notification area's are fully hidden - no fiddling fingers allowed. The apps I am 'overriding' are also under my control, but are having issues deciding whos boss when I need an alert message shown from a non-focused 'watchdog' app -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
