On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:00:34 +1100, Grumpy Gamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >ha ha - it seems to work :) Had the always show bar with just the one >'show main PowerPro bar' button, and main bar hidden as always. When I >exited from Agent, it started to compress a couple of folders with >large amounts of empty space. I quickly clicked the button on the >always show bar, and my always hidden bar displayed :) To test >further, I then clicked a button on that bar, and the program started >up - all the while Agent was busily compressing away :) So, definitely >works for Agent, have to test now with backing up my emails into an >archive from The Bat email client (another task that brings PowerPro >to its knees). > >(oh, and I've moved the always show bar from 'fixed top center' to >'fixed top right offset' - in the center where it was, it occasionally >obstructed the close button on some of my other programs - and if I >set it to 'click through' to fix that, I couldn't use the show bar >button) Yep - it works with The Bat too. Interesting thing I noticed when testing this though - when The Bat was the active window and was archiving, my PowerPro 'always hidden' bar was dead as a doornail. However, when I Alt+Tab to Firefox (which I had open at the same time), my PowerPro bar started to respond again - all the while The Bat was still archiving in the background. Swapped back to The Bat, and PowerPro became dead again. Based on this, maybe I was wrong about it being a disk i/o thing. I notice in both The Bat and Agent when they are archiving and compressing respectively, a progress dialog is displayed in the middle of the screen until the task is complete. This dialog blocks you off from clicking on the main The Bat/Agent window. Once the task is complete, the dialog disappears automatically (in Agent, you click Ok on it in The Bat) and control is returned to the main program. Maybe this dialog is somehow causing PowerPro to get confused, and it doesn't recognise that I'm pushing my mouse up against the top of the screen? Or can anyone else think of something based on this weird behaviour? -- Regards, GG
