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Re: [WIN] <Maximize>/<Restore> & switching apps from taskbar problem

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Sep 03, 2001
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Oops, nevermind, Judith has already solved this problem in .10.6 bleeding
edge.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Moyer" <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: [WIN] <Maximize>/<Restore> & switching apps from taskbar problem


>
> I'm having a problem with my modification of Judith's elaboration of the
IDE
> for Win32Lib which relates to my (unusual?) use of <Maximize>/<Restore> in
> "onResize" when the user switches apps by clicking on icons in the
taskbar.
>
> I use style <Maximize>/<Restore> in "onResize" to select *slightly
> different* windows in the app (more content in large window, less in
small,
> for app
> users convenience), but it doesn't happen correctly when the user uses the
> taskbar icons to select a different program and then uses the taskbar
icons
> again to come back to the modified IDE.  I'm not sure if my code logic is
> wrong, or if I'm not making the program sense & respond to some condition
> deriving from taskbar clicking, or what.
>
> I *have* made it function ok with respect to *Minimizing* the window, with
a
> flag to know when it has been minimized and tests in "onResize" to handle
> <Restore> differently if the window had just been minimized or not.  I
> thought this would handle the condition of switching apps via the taskbar,
> but it doesn't.
>
> THE PROBLEM:
> The problem is, if the window was large, and the user clicks on an icon in
> the taskbar for some other program, and then clicks back on my mods icon,
> the window is *not* re-made large, but rather it's made small.
>
> A CLUE?:
> I have found that if the user FIRST clicks on any "*show help
documentation"
> button in the Edit window, which runs some "zOrder" stuff first relating
to
> the order of showing windows on top of one another, and THEN uses the
> taskbar to switch apps, the problem doesn't occur, at least for some
while,
> but after some continued taskbar clicking the problem happens again.
> Problem is, I don't have control over when the *user* clicks in the
taskbar,
> so I can't just try to utilize that zOrder stuff in the onResize event,
> 'cause I don't know what tested conditions to put it under, I think?
>
> Code snippet follows, any help would be appreciated, thanks.
>
> Dan Moyer
>
>
> Here's the relevant logic portion of my code:
>
> -- set on program entry:
> global integer wasMinimized  -- set whenever window is minimized,
hopefully
>      wasMinimized = 0
>
>
> -- onResize code snippet:
> --*** for switching size of edit screen between small and large versions
> --*** by clicking <Maximize> or <Restore> box at upper right of window:
>
>     --*** for large screen:
>     if  style=SIZE_MAXIMIZED  or
>         (style= SIZE_RESTORED and wasMinimized = 1)
>        <snip>  -- maximize window & put bunch of stuff in it
>         wasMinimized = 0  -- is big now
>
>     --*** for small screen:
>     elsif  style=SIZE_RESTORED and
>            wasMinimized = 0 then
>           <snip> -- make window "normal" size, & don't put everything in
it
>
>     elsif style=SIZE_MINIMIZED then
>         wasMinimized = 1
>     end if
>
>
>