Harold, > > At 07:56 PM 3/20/2004 +0900, Takuma Murakami wrote: > > > >> You give me a good insight to improve Z order handling. > >> I believe we can approach to better solutions. The attached > >> is my latest code which should fix all problems on restacking > >> and a-o-t windows without using fAlwaysOnTop flag. Could you > >> try and review this? > > > > > > It works great from my testing today! On Monday I'll bring it to > > work for a harder test, I normally have 10 or so emacs and xterms > > running with an occasional EDA tool. (It seems that cygwin's > > emacs-x11 has some problems, not due to these changes, so I can't > > get too many started locally to test...) > > I haven't gotten a chance to test Takuma's new patch yet, so I was > wondering if you have checked what happens when you open two xterms, > place a Cygwin bash shell inbetween them in the Z order partially > overlapping with both of them, then minimize one xterm and then the > Cygwin bash shell... you'll have to play with the ordering a little bit, > but see if you can get it to have one xterm showing the contents of the > other xterm where they were previously overlapping. That was a bug that > we have had before and Takuma's changes from last week re-introduced > that bug. I'm not sure if his new patch was an attempt to fix that or > not... but this is something that somebody will need to fix and I'd > appreciate it if you had some insight if this is not already fixed.
I revived winReorderWindowsMultiWindow() to fix the bug, which I call "restacking bug". And it is called much less frequently than before (from winBlockHandler()). I believe Earle will confirm this by his hard tests. Takuma Murakami
