I noticed the same thing with AutoIt, a windows scripting language. There are times when a dialog box is supposed to take focus but it doesn't. This was not a problem in XP.

I have a Windows 7, 64-bit machine and I also noticed that it takes a while for 2xExplorer, a 32-bit program, to access a network drive.

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133

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Subject: RE: Cannot print book PDFs from network drive
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:53:43 -0700
From: Combs, Richard <richard.co...@polycom.com>
To: Craig Ede <craig...@hotmail.com>, "framers@lists.frameusers.com" <framers@lists.frameusers.com>

Craig Ede wrote:
 
> Acrobat X is kind of funky though. It doesn't post alerts to the screen
> when there are problems. Instead, it adds a document to the taskbar
> which you have to click on to see. This applies to situations where you
> are being asked to name the file and choose where it will be stored. It
> certainly would be better if it brought this things to your attention
> directly on the screen via a pop-up dialog.

Since being forced to move to Win 7, I've seen this problem with a number of programs (including Acrobat 9, which is what I'm using). 

When a program displays a modal dialog box requiring input from the user (such as a File Save or Print dialog, or message that must be acknowledged), that dialog box should take focus -- that is, appear on top of all other open windows and be selected. In Win 7, this often doesn't happen. I can't tell you how many times I've thought that an application wasn't responding to my input only to realize that there was a dialog hidden somewhere, waiting patiently for input from me. Aargh!

I assumed that Win 7 introduced some changes in app-to-OS communications that pre-Win 7 apps don't properly handle. But Acrobat X was released _after_ Win 7, right? Could it be that the problem is with Win 7 itself? 

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-903-6372
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