open a palette window over a modal window under OS 9

[Chris Sheffield]

I think I've found a bug in Rev, and I want to see if anyone has ever  
experienced this and if so, if there is a workaround.

I've got an application that we are supposed to release this week, so  
this is kind of urgent. In this app, I've got a main window that  
opens a stack as modal. This is so the user cannot interact with the  
main window while the other is open. But then from the modal window,  
there is a help stack that I open as a palette. This works fine under  
Windows and OS X, but under OS 9, there's a problem. The palette  
stack does not get focus when it opens, and you cannot interact with  
it at all. You can't even close it. It's like the modal stack is  
taking over, and in fact, when I click anywhere in the palette stack,  
I get the beep from the computer indicating that I can't do anything  
with it. The palette window does open over the top of the modal one,  
however. Then once I close the modal window, I can interact with the  
palette. Bug? Shouldn't it behave the same way on all platforms?

After doing some additional testing, it doesn't matter which mode I  
use for that help stack. I cannot interact with it at all from the  
modal one. Can anyone think of a workaround for this?

Thanks,
Chris


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