Thread: Minor annoyance with Windows Help in pgAdmin III

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
helpcomes up on top of it.  Minimizing the application makes the icon for the minimized help go away, as though it's
beenabsorbed 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
mostprograms though, this is what happens when opening Help from within the program.
 

The help is pretty good, as is the program, and I'm a newbie so I use help often.
 Alan Corey

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