Thread: Help not modeless

Help not modeless

From
chris@zenmgt.com
Date:
I'm running Windows XP Pro and I using pgAdmin III v 1.0.2.

When I click on the help icon, the help window becomes modal in that I 
can't select the pgAdmin window. I must close the help in order to selct 
the main pgAdmin window.



Re: Help not modeless

From
Andreas Pflug
Date:
chris@zenmgt.com wrote:

> I'm running Windows XP Pro and I using pgAdmin III v 1.0.2.
>
> When I click on the help icon, the help window becomes modal in that I 
> can't select the pgAdmin window. I must close the help in order to 
> selct the main pgAdmin window.

I can't reproduce this with cvs head (and AFAIR we didn't have a changed 
this behaviour since 1.0). The help window will stay in the foreground, 
is that what you mean?

Regards,
Andreas




Re: Help not modeless

From
Miha Radej
Date:
Hi!

I'm using version 1.1.0 devel (Mar 26 2004) on Win2k and I can confirm the 
same situation. If I open up pgAdmin III and press F1 (or, for that matter, 
choose Help... from the menu), the help window opens up. I can see pgAdmin 
III or other aplications in the background and if I click anywhere outside 
the pgAdmin III help window it doesn't move to the background, it stays on 
top (although it does not remain active, just hovering on top). Pressing 
Alt-Tab to switch applications works normally here.
But also I noticed a rather annoying thing. If I open Help -> About, the 
small about box pops up. It stays on top even after pressing Alt-Tab when I 
want to switch applications. And here's the annoying part: if I move the 
pgadmin III about box, immediately after placing it somewhere on the screen 
and releasing the mouse button or just clicking on the title bar, pgAdmin 
III moves to the foreground. Clicking anywhere else in the About box only 
activates it, pgAdmin III stays in the back. This doesn't happen with the 
Help window.
Please see sample pictures 1 and 2:
http://mcajvar.prkoritu.net/pgAdminIII/about_01.png
Here is the About box on top of my screen, with UltraEdit being active 
behind it.

http://mcajvar.prkoritu.net/pgAdminIII/about_02.png
This happenes immediately after clicking on the About box title bar.
I didn't check this in any other version of pgAdmin III.

And I also have another question. In the devel version I'm using there are 
some strings written in english. Is there any possibility to translate 
those strings also?

At 20:13 25.4.2004, Andreas Pflug wrote:
>chris@zenmgt.com wrote:
>
>>I'm running Windows XP Pro and I using pgAdmin III v 1.0.2.
>>
>>When I click on the help icon, the help window becomes modal in that I 
>>can't select the pgAdmin window. I must close the help in order to selct 
>>the main pgAdmin window.
>
>I can't reproduce this with cvs head (and AFAIR we didn't have a changed 
>this behaviour since 1.0). The help window will stay in the foreground, is 
>that what you mean?


Lp,
Miha 




Re: Help not modeless

From
"Chris Velevitch"
Date:
Yes, the help window does stay in the foreground which is not what I was
expecting especially when the help window is full screen.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin@pse-consulting.de] 
Sent: Monday, 26 April 2004 4:13 AM
To: chris@zenmgt.com
Cc: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Help not modeless


chris@zenmgt.com wrote:

> I'm running Windows XP Pro and I using pgAdmin III v 1.0.2.
>
> When I click on the help icon, the help window becomes modal in that I
> can't select the pgAdmin window. I must close the help in order to 
> selct the main pgAdmin window.

I can't reproduce this with cvs head (and AFAIR we didn't have a changed 
this behaviour since 1.0). The help window will stay in the foreground, 
is that what you mean?

Regards,
Andreas





Re: Help not modeless

From
Andreas Pflug
Date:
Chris Velevitch wrote:

>Yes, the help window does stay in the foreground which is not what I was
>expecting especially when the help window is full screen.
>  
>

This is the default behaviour, and not set individually in pgadmin3. 
We'd have to discuss whether this is good or not.

Regards,
Andreas