Minimizing window reorders Squeak windows?
Dan Ingalls
Dan.Ingalls at disney.com
Wed Apr 19 21:45:51 UTC 2000
>On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Conrad Taylor wrote:
>> How are you doing? I noticed that when one minimizes
>> the Sqeak window and reopens it the windows on the
>> Squeak desktop are reordered. Is this a feature or
>> a bug? If this is a bug, could someone send me the
>> reference for the fix?
Doug Way <dway at mat.net> replied...
>I don't see a bug here. By "order" I assume you mean the order in which
>the windows within Squeak are overlapping, topmost to bottommost?
>
>As far as I can tell, whenever I minimize the entire Squeak window (on
>Windows NT), and then open it again, all of the Squeak windows are in the
>same order that they were before. (In MVC or Morphic, with Squeak 2.7.)
There is a feature in Squeak (see senders and implmentors of #makeMeVisible) that causes windows to be moved if, due to resizing of the screen, they are no longer visible. This can make a mess, and is mainly annoying if it had been your intent to re-enlarge the screen a little later anyway. It should probably be changed so that it leaves things alone, but places a flashing button in the upper left whose caption (and effect) is something like "relocate offscreen windows so they are visible."
- Dan
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