alwaysOnTop is 'Always On Top', has nothing to do with modal and must be used with utmost care mostly in situations where some information MUST always be present, like for instance the position of the moderator rods in the core of an atomic reactor...
My 2cts, Werner On 23.12.2011 09:52, Fritz Zaucker wrote: > Hi, > > anybody have an opinion on this or is everybody just in vacation-mode right > now? > > Cheers, > Fritz > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Fritz Zaucker wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> in the default desktop window manager (qx.ui.windows.Manager) the handling >> of the properties modal and alwaysOnTop seems to be a bit counter-intuitive >> to me: >> >> If a window has the modal-property set, then this window "wins" against >> another window without modal, but with the alwaysOnTop-property set. >> >> I guess, the property would be more properly named "almostAlwaysOnTop" or >> "alwaysOnTopIfNoModalWindowIsAround" ... ;-) >> >> The only method affected as far as I can tell is >> qx.ui.windows.Manager.syncWidget(). >> >> I'd see two fixes: >> >> a) - Let alwaysOnTop win against modal >> - Let alwaysOnTop AND model win against just alwaysOnTop >> - Check if more than one window has alwaysOnTop set >> >> This is in my opinion the cleanest implementation, but might break >> existing applications who somehow ignored the fact that alwaysOnTop >> doesn't really mean ALWAYS. >> >> >> b) - Check if both modal and alwaysOnTop are set and have this win against >> just modal. >> >> - Let modal win against alwaysOnTop AND NOT modal as it currently does. >> >> Less clean, see above. >> >> >> Any other opinions in this? >> >> Cheers, >> Fritz >> >> P.S.: I can provide a patch if somebody from the core team would decide >> which way to go. >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
