Re: Minor annoyance with Windows Help in pgAdmin - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Andreas Pflug
Subject Re: Minor annoyance with Windows Help in pgAdmin
Date
Msg-id 4247DBB1.3030604@pse-consulting.de
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In response to Minor annoyance with Windows Help in pgAdmin III  (Alan Corey <acorey@registrar.umass.edu>)
List pgadmin-support
Alan Corey wrote:
> This is only an annoyance, not a major bug.
> 
> The help window is too much a child of the application window.  If I 
> have the application open, then click the help button, Help opens, and I 
> can minimize it when I'm done.  If I then minimize the application, when 
> I pop it back up the help comes up on top of it.  Minimizing the 
> application makes the icon for the minimized help go away, as though 
> it's been absorbed somehow.
> 
> This is with pgAdmin 1.2.0, under Windows 2000.
> 
> I have found that a workaround is to open Help from the Start Menu 
> shortcut, then the two function independently.  With most programs 
> though, this is what happens when opening Help from within the program.

Yes, this is a "feature" of win32 htmlhelp, I find this annoying too 
(besides some other ill-behaviour). Please complain in Redmond... you 
may cite me.

Regards,
Andreas



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