Howdy Harold, Harold wrote ... > While you are at it, would you mind looking at what happens in emacs > when you have set the "Always On Top" flag for a window? The menus in > that case briefly popup, then get stuck behind the main emacs window. > If you hold the mouse button down and drags it around between a few > menus you can eventually get them to stick on top... sounds like all > child windows of an "Always On Top" window should also have that flag > set. I don't know if that is easy or hard to solve though.
According to the Windoze docs any subchildren of a window on the top of the Z order inherit the always-on-top setting automatically. Unfortunately it looks like when Emacs makes a menu, it creates a window whose parent isn't the editor window. It probably makes a transient over the root display, so as far as X and Win32 knows it's just another undecorated window. I'll throw in some local debugging and take a gander and see if this is really the case. It *may* make sense to place transients at the top of the Z stack always, but I'd rather not do that without a whole lot of thought... -- -Earle F. Philhower, III [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ziplabel.com
