Re: Window layering screwed / Problems with (ask and answer) dialogs

2024-12-11 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
:-) > On Dec 11, 2024, at 2:46 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > I haven't seen the issue myself. If it's not important to you I'm just as > happy to get on with my day. > > Richard Gaskin > FourthWorld.com > > > Hugh Senior wrote: > >> Hi Richard >> >> No, I haven't report

Re: Window layering screwed / Problems with (ask and answer) dialogs

2024-12-11 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
I haven't seen the issue myself. If it's not important to you I'm just as happy to get on with my day. Richard Gaskin FourthWorld.com Hugh Senior wrote: > Hi Richard > > No, I haven't reported it. Not sure I still have access to Bugzilla now. > Can you do the honours, please? > > RaiseWindows

Re: Window layering screwed / Problems with (ask and answer) dialogs

2024-12-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
FYI I just created a test stack with a check box (on mouseUp set the raiseWindows to the hilite of me end mouseUp) and a button (on mouseUp answer "Answer Dialog" end mouseUp) and tried it under LC 9.6.12 and 9.6.13 in the IDE on Windows 11 (latest version/updates) on an HP Pavilion (i7, 16GB

Re: Window layering screwed / Problems with (ask and answer) dialogs

2024-12-11 Thread Hugh Senior via use-livecode
Hi Richard No, I haven't reported it. Not sure I still have access to Bugzilla now. Can you do the honours, please? RaiseWindows LC 9.6.12 Windows When RaiseWindows is set to true, expect modal windows to float. They don't. They appear behind the parent window, inaccessible and undismissable. Hu

Re: Window layering screwed / Problems with (ask and answer) dialogs

2024-12-10 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Hugh Senior wrote: > Recipe is engine bug with RaiseWindows. Set to false to regain correct > layering, with thanks to Marty. > > Now just lurking on the lists! Before you go, did you file a bug report on that? -- Richard Gaskin FourthWorld.com ___ us

Re: Window layering screwed / Problems with (ask and answer) dialogs

2024-12-09 Thread Hugh Senior via use-livecode
Curry: Recipe is engine bug with RaiseWindows. Set to false to regain correct layering, with thanks to Marty. Now just lurking on the lists! Hugh Senior -Original Message- Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 16:18:29 -0500 From: Curry Kenworthy To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Window

re: Window layering screwed

2024-12-09 Thread Hugh Senior via use-livecode
Yo Marty, RaiseWindows is the culprit. Good catch. I recall window layering being a PITA in the engine many years ago. Looks like the recent Windows update has thrown a spanner back in the works. Hugh Senior >Marty Knapp wrote > >Check to see if raiseWindows is set to true - if so t

Re: Window layering screwed / Problems with (ask and answer) dialogs

2024-12-08 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Hugh: > After years of working as expected, now any stack opened as modal > is mis-layered behind the calling window. Yes, I have seen that a couple of times - You need a recipe! Context makes all the difference. Glad to see you here. Klaus: > Windows 11 ... (ask and answer) dialogs appear in

Re: Window layering screwed

2024-12-08 Thread Marty Knapp via use-livecode
window is >> hidden and not accessible to dismiss, the only way to regain control seems >> to be cmd.M to show the message box (dunno why). >> >> Anyone else got this problem? Is it the result of a recent Windows update >> that has somehow scr

Re: Window layering screwed

2024-12-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I am running Windows 11 with the latest updates on an HP Pavilion laptop with a i7 processor and 16GB of RAM. I have no window layering issues under LC9.6.13, LC 10.0.0, or LC 10.0.1rc3. On 12/8/2024 4:01 AM, Hugh Senior via use-livecode wrote: After years of working as expected, now any

Window layering screwed

2024-12-08 Thread Hugh Senior via use-livecode
it the result of a recent Windows update that has somehow screwed up window layering? LC 9.6.12 Win11 Hugh Senior ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Window layering

2017-07-19 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 07/19/2017 10:51 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: > On 2017-07-19 18:59, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: >>> - set the layer ouf a stack below all other windows (opposite >>> of systemWindow) >> >> It might be useful - although probably not implementable (judging by >> how

Re: Window layering

2017-07-19 Thread prothero--- via use-livecode
My 2c, Mark Waddingham deserves promotion to a state of eternal bliss for his magnificent command of the virtue of patience. Best, Bill P William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Jul 19, 2017, at 11:51 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 2017-07-19 18:59, Mark Waddingha

Re: Window layering

2017-07-19 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-07-19 18:59, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: - set the layer ouf a stack below all other windows (opposite of systemWindow) It might be useful - although probably not implementable (judging by how hard it is to get the backdrop to work reliably on all platforms). This case i

Re: Window layering

2017-07-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Well . . . My Devawriter Pro has an optional faux backdrop stack (it's called "DESKER") with this stackScript: *on**preOpenStack* ** ***put**((item 3 **ofthescreenRect**) + 20) **into**WIDD* ** ***put**((item 4 **ofthescreenRect**) + 20) **into**HITE* ** ***setthe

Re: Window layering

2017-07-19 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-07-19 18:59, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2017-07-19 18:32, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: All this talk about the background has me wondering: would it be useful to anyone here if we had a way to: - set the layer of a stack below all other LC stacks (opposite o

Re: Window layering

2017-07-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
In about 2003 I did exactly that with RunRev 2.2.1, using a Palette as a faux backdrop, but I can neither find that stack nor remember how I did it. The stack might be on the OLD revOnline if there is any way to access that. Richmond. On 7/19/17 7:59 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:

Re: Window layering

2017-07-19 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-07-19 18:32, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: All this talk about the background has me wondering: would it be useful to anyone here if we had a way to: - set the layer of a stack below all other LC stacks (opposite of palette) - set the layer ouf a stack below all other window

Window layering

2017-07-19 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
All this talk about the background has me wondering: would it be useful to anyone here if we had a way to: - set the layer of a stack below all other LC stacks (opposite of palette) - set the layer ouf a stack below all other windows (opposite of systemWindow) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth W