revBrowser and modal stack

[Bob Sneidar]

It’s been my experience that the revBrowser paints on top of everything. I don’t believe I’ve tried with Modal windows AFTER I activated a browser, but if it is as unwieldy as I remember it being, revBrowser will trump ALL attempts to put something in front of it that is running in the same stack. 

Now that being the case, have you thought of writing a standalone that did nothing but run a revBrowser? You can pass it arguments via Applescript or else using sockets. I did something similar to create a floating progress dialog to which I passed messages telling it what kind of animation I wanted, what buttons to show and activate (if any) and what message to display. Because it was a standalone, it operated independently of the main app or IDE. 

Bob


On Feb 17, 2014, at 07:09 , Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Hi jbv,
> 
> I don't think so, as the browser window might be rendered incorrectly "on top" of a window that doesn't have a layer in front of itself anymore and because the browser window is supposed to move with its parent window. Probably the latter makes more sense than the former.
> 
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> Op 17 feb. 2014 om 15:29 heeft jbv at souslelogo.com het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> 
>>> Another possibility is that the modal dialog disaplays on top of the
>>> browser window. The browser isn't a real control but a window drawn on
>>> top of the stack window. Modal dialogs are drawn in a layer in front of
>>> all other windows of an app, possibly including the browser windows.
>>> That means that you can't do what you want.
>> 
>> Hi Mark,
>> Thanks for your reply.
>> If I understand you well, since the modal stack occupies only a small part
>> of the screen, when moving it I should see the browser window underneath,
>> actually on top of the main stack that calls the modal stack...
>> Am I wrong on this ?
>> 
>> Best,
>> jbv
>> 
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