OpenEuphoria

Re: IDE v0.18.? and Win32lib v0.60.0+

• Posted by Judith Evans <camping at txcyber.com> Jul 10, 2004
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Don wrote:
> 
> > I'm getting a lot of e-mail about the behavior or Code Editor with the new
> > win32lib.
> > 
> > In order to perhaps stem the flow I'm letting every user of IDE know what
> > has happened.
> > 
> > Code Editor is parented to Form Design which allows Code Editor to stay in
> > front of
> > IDE's
> > main screen and at the same time allow the user to click in Design to manage
> > controls.
> > The new
> > win32lib, when a control in Design is clicked or when an icon in the Tool
> > Box is clicked
> > and
> > a number of other times and Code Editor is open, gives focus immediately
> > back to Code
> > Editor. You can get around this problem by 
> > parenting CodeWin in IDE_code.ew to 0 but then the Code Editor's icon will
> > show in
> > the windows
> > task bar and Code Editor is not stay in front of IDE's main window.  In the
> > next release
> > of IDE I've played a little game by parenting Code Editor to an offscreen
> > toolwindow so that the icon doesn't show in the task bar. I'm not entirely
> > pleased
> > with this trick as without a lot of moveZOrder statements I can not keep
> > Code Editor
> > in front of IDE's main window. 
> > 
> > If anyone has suggestions I'd be grateful to hear them.
> > ~judith
> > 
> 
> Hey Judith =)
> Umm, Windows style WS_EX_TOPMOST doesnt fit the bill?
> 
> Or does it only need to be topmost some of the time.  I have never tried,
> but perhaps toggling this style will provide what you need... an example
> would rule (as I code by hand) =)
> 
> 
> Don Phillips - aka Graebel
>      National Instruments
>      mailto: eunexus @ yahoo.com
>

I tried WS_EX_TOPMOST but then with Code Editor open and I open a dialog window,
for example
configurations, it is behind Code Editor and since it is a modal window I can
not move Code Editor out of the way.

Thanks for the suggestion, however.
~judith