Hi Fons,
Thank you.
I did not know which piece of the code is responsible for that behavior.
My guess was this is due some attribute that is set from inside of the ROOT.
and it is simple for the author of that piece fix
Valeri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fons Rademakers" <Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch>
To: "Valeri Fine" <fine@bnl.gov>
Cc: "Brett Viren" <bv@bnl.gov>; "Andreas Zoglauer" <zog@mpe.mpg.de>; "ROOTtalkmailing list" <roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [ROOT] GUI-Window always on top, even when not active
> Hi Valeri,
>
> this has nothing to do with GDK/Win32 but with the way the ROOT GUI
> works. If you implement correctly the Qt TVirtualX interface your
> version will behave the same. The issue is that windows deriving from
> TGTransientFrame are dialog windows that stay on top of their parent
> TGMainFrames. If you want a window that can be put to the back use a
> TGMainFrame derived class.
>
> Cheers, Fons.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 15:02, Valeri Fine wrote:
> > One needs no guess job here.
> >
> > Usually the WIN32 applications behave as one expects. This indicates the
> > window attributes
> > of those dialogs are not set properly and the author of Win32Gdk version
> > should fix this.
> >
> > Valeri
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brett Viren" <bv@bnl.gov>
> > To: "Andreas Zoglauer" <zog@mpe.mpg.de>
> > Cc: "ROOTtalk mailing list" <roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 8:46 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ROOT] GUI-Window always on top, even when not active
> >
> >
> > > Andreas Zoglauer writes:
> > > > When one looks at the example "guitest" and one opens the editor (with
> > > > the "Open Editor" button) then the editor is always the topmost window
> > of
> > > > the guitest example, i.e. even when I click at the main program
> > GuiTest,
> > > > then it gets activated, but the editor remains in front of it.
> > >
> > > This may be a window manager issue. Do you have "keep transients
> > > above parent's window" or something similar set in whatever
> > > w.m. configuration you are using? Eg, in Sawfish this is under the
> > > "Misc" area of the configuration app.
> > >
> > > -Brett.
> > >
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