In the meantime I could add this as a feature to the UIEnhancements
package...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of
> Jerome Peace
> Sent: 13 November 2007 6:19 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: comeToFront
>
>
> comeToFront
>
>
> Hi Trygve and Karl,
>
> This would be a good issue to make a mantis report.
> It's clearly something that needs to be tracked.
>
> I've looked at the system window internals. I bet that
> some serious study will need to be made before a
> stable repair can be made. So a mantis report would be
> a good place to collect analysis and repair attempts.
>
> It would also be good to have a user story. What would
> be a simple description of the way it should behave?
>
> Hth,
> Yours in curiosity and service, --Jerome Peace
>
>
> ***
> >Trygve Reenskaug trygver at ifi.uio.no
> >Mon Nov 12 17:34:57 UTC 2007
> >
> >
> >Thanks Karl. I quickly wrote a hack and observed that
> it works in at
> >least one case....
> >Haven't the knowledge nor the time to make a firm bug
> fix proposal.
> >
> >I replaced 'TopWindow == self ifFalse: ' in the
> >SystemWindows>>mouseDown: with:
> >    ((w := self world) notNil and: [w firstSubmorph
> == self]) ifFalse:
> >I have no idea if it is safe to ignore TopWindow
> here.
> >
> >Cheers
> >--Trygve
> >
> >On 12.11.2007 14:02, Karl wrote:
> >> Ah, the dreadful SystemWindow internals ;-)
> >> SystemWindows>>mouseDown: evt
> >>
> >>    | outerMorph |
> >>    self setProperty: #clickPoint toValue: evt
> cursorPoint.
> >>    TopWindow == self ifFalse:
> >>        [evt hand releaseKeyboardFocus.
> >>        self activate].
> >>
> >> The top window will not activate if it is the top
> window...
> >> There could be a check to see if it was the front
> most morph as well I
> >> guess.
> >>
> >> Karl
> >>
> >>
> >> Trygve Reenskaug wrote:
> >>> Squeak3.10beta.7143
> >>>
> >>> I have a DemoWindow, sco PasteUpMorph.
> >>> The DemoWindow opens on top.
> >>> I open a Browser, it masks part of  the
> DemoWindow.
> >>> I click the DemoWindow , but have to move it to
> make it go on top.
> >>> The browser doesn't go on top if I click inside
> it, I have to click
> >>> its border (move it).
> >>>
> >>> I set the demo window option "resist being picked
> up".
> >>> It is now hard to make the demo window go on top,
> so I add the
> >>> following method:
> >>>
> >>>     DemoWindow >>mouseDown: evt
> >>>         evt yellowButtonPressed  ifTrue: [^ self
> >>> yellowButtonActivity: evt shiftPressed].
> >>>         self eventHandler ifNotNil: [self
> eventHandler mouseDown: evt
> >>> fromMorph: self].
> >>>         self comeToFront.
> >>>
> >>> Now the DemoWindow goes on top when I click it (as
> it should).
> >>> But the only way to make the Browser go on top is
> to click its border
> >>> (move it).
> >>>
> >>> I have also tried /'evt hand newKeyboardFocus:
> self.'/ with the same
> >>> result.
> >>> /'self activate'/ doesn't work on a Morph (but it
> works on a
> >>> SystemWindow)
> >>>
> >>> What's happening?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> --Trygve
> >>>
> >>> PS
> >>> I have looked at the excellent documentation in
> '/Squeak by Example/'
> >>> and '/A GUIDE TO WORK WITH
> >>> SQUEAK MORPH CLASSES/', and '/An Introduction to
> Morphic: The Squeak
> >>> User Interface Framework/' without finding an
> answer. I have also
> >>> tried to google, but have not found anything
> written by people who
> >>> knew what was happening.
> >
> >--
> >
> >Trygve Reenskaug      mailto: trygver at ifi.uio.no
> >Morgedalsvn. 5A       http://folk.uio.no/trygver
> >N-0378 Oslo           Tel: (+47) 22 49 57 27
> >Norway
> >
> ***
>
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>
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