On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Don Blaheta <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoth Stephen Chang: >> I've never seen a dialog box appear behind another window in drracket, >> but I have on occasion, due to my own doing, lost a dialog box behind >> another window, and subsequently gotten frustrated when the buttons in >> drracket become unresponsive, like what Drew described. > > This reminds me of a related problem my students often run into: losing > the test case results. They see it because they all tend to maximise > the main window, so if they don't close or dock the test case window it > gets hidden, and it doesn't resurface the next time they click Run.[0] So > they get confused as to why "none of the test cases are failing". I've > learned that when they say this I need to look for the *absence* of the > phrase "All X tests passed!" in the interactions, which means there were > *some* failures and I have to go hunting for the window. > > I wouldn't want to see the test case window be sticky and impossible to > send to the back, but it would be nice if it always came to front when > you click Run and there are some failures. > > [0]Well, not always. Sometimes the window resurfaces, and I don't know > why. Usually not.
Sorry for the long delay in getting to this. I'm not sure if this has been fixed already, but when I try this with simple programs I see the window reappearing every time and, as far as I can tell, there should not be any race-conditions or anything like that (at least I don't see anything suspicious in that direction). So: maybe someone else already fixed this, or maybe I just don't have a complicated enough program to see the problem. Don: if you have a student's program where the test window doesn't appear (even 1 in 10 tries to see the bad behavior is okay with me at this point), that would be useful to me. Thanks, Robby _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
