Backdrop hiding standalone window

[Ian McKnight]

Hi Richmond

Thanks for the quick reply and the example stack.  I'm incorporating
its ideas into my stack almost as I type!



2009/8/30 Richmond Mathewson <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>:
> Just get rid of the backdrop: more trouble than it's worth and can
> really cheese-off end-users who may want to access stuff on their
> desktop at the same time as your app is running.
>
> OR, if you really feel the urge to have some sort of backdrop
> use a vast substack with a neutral colour/texture that gets "pushed"
> to the back when it is opened; make sure it stays there even when
> end-users click on it:
>
> http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/Backdrop-O-Matic.rev.zip
>
> Ian McKnight wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a stack with a menu option to hide/show the backdrop In the IDE
>> everything works as it should, however, in the standalone things
>> don't. Specifically when the backdrop is visible and I drag the
>> standalone's window it goes 'behind' the backdrop. The only way to
>> regain control of the app then is to force quit from the Task Manager
>> and run the app again.
>>
>> I put the following handler in the card script of each card in the
>> stack, hoping that it would bring the stack back to the front again,
>> with no affect.
>>
>> on mouseDownInBackdrop
>>    toplevel stack "backdropTest"
>> end mousedowninbackdrop
>>
>> I searched the Quality Centre for related problems but came up empty.
>> Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a workaround?
>> At present I have had to disable the Show/Hide option in the menu bar
>> but I would like to be able to provide it.
>>
>> I'm using revEnterprise 4.0 on Windows XP sp3
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Ian McKnight
>>
>> iangmcknight at googlemail.com
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Ian McKnight

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