As a workaround, making it a system window, then immediately making it a topLevel window should get around your issue. Not sure why it behaves the way it does. Going to a stack should make the stack the topStack, and only other stacks set as modal or system windows would override that behavior.
Bob S > On May 13, 2018, at 07:26 , Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Since I do not create the stack as a "modal stack" (a command I didn't even > know existed... again, thanks for THAT), then does that make my card (only > one in the app) a "system" window? After read the doc's on "modal stack", I > doubt that I want my stack to become "modal"... even temporarily. > > What I seek is that window that "remains on top" *is* the LC card's window (I > only have one card in this app)... but this statement is qualified as > explained below. > > When I "leave" the LC window to perform an action on another window (e.g. > Notepad), the Notepad window become the active window. What I want (and > achieve using AutoHotKey) is, after placing a section of text from another > window (Notepad, Outlook, Excel, etc.)into the clipboard (via ^C, double > click, etc.), my LC card's window becomes the top-most, active window > AUTOMATICALLY. Of course I could MANUALLY "dig it out" from behind any > overlaying windows but I'm much too lazy to do THAT. > > LC happily (and impressively) "sees" the "new" clipboard data in a "timing > loop", and inserts it into my LC processing. What I am seeking, in an LC > native procedure, is for the LC card's window to become the top-most window. > I DO NOT want to make my LC window the top-most ALL THE TIME, as the " set > the systemwindow of stack "stackname" to true" does... just re-emerge as the > top-most window when I want it to. > > Douglas Ruisaard > Trilogy Software > (250) 573-3935 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
