https://streamable.com/rzkc28

That's how it looks. I have to go to taskbar to open it (pressing twice 
there on task bar icon because its behind Explorer, so I'm minimizing it 
first then again to make it appear). I could also minimize explorer to see 
it but I don't usually do that.

On Friday, February 17, 2023 at 9:25:05 PM UTC+1 San San wrote:

> Although I'm not ready to give up and shove it under the "blame Windows" 
> rug. This only happens to TortoiseSVN. I suspect it's just that spawning 
> the Commit window has a problem when it spawns first time. Too bad it's 
> like a Schrodinger's cat problem and I can't get it to bug when I'm trying 
> to record it.
>
> On Friday, February 17, 2023 at 7:52:45 AM UTC+1 San San wrote:
>
>> I see, yes it could just be Windows. I'm using Windows 10 by the way.
>>
>> It could be that because I'm doing a Commit, Explorer is told somehow to 
>> "refresh" (to show the green TortoiseSVN icon I suppose), and this causes 
>> it to take priority and become the front window. Perhaps, because the 
>> "Commit Finished!" window is not in cache because I've not been using 
>> TortoiseSVN for while, it loses the race between who gets to be on front 
>> between the Explorer and "Commit Finished!" TortoiseSVN window.
>>
>> Perhaps this is happening because I also have Dropbox on, which likes to 
>> watch and manage folders and files all the time too.
>> On Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 6:03:20 PM UTC+1 Stefan wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think this is a bug in TSVN. I have a strong suspicion that you 
>>> have some tool installed that causes this behavior.
>>> You see, ever since Win7 Windows decides itself which window gets to be 
>>> in front. That was because many apps started to misbehave and forced their 
>>> window to the foreground, annoying users who were typing in another window.
>>> That's why a process can not bring it's own window to the front anymore. 
>>> See the remarks section for the SetForegroundWindow API:
>>>
>>> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setforegroundwindow
>>>
>>> Also, I've never seen this kind of behavior myself, and I'm using TSVN 
>>> on multiple machines with three different OS versions (Win7, ok that one 
>>> will be replaced soon, Win10 and Win11).
>>>
>>>

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