Mathias Bauer wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 28/11/2007 23:32, Elchanan wrote:
Greetings everyone,
I use OO 2.3 on Win XP Pro. Whenever I double-click in Windows Explorer to
launch a document that OO is set to open, the task bar icon flashes (which
is just dandy) but the document itself does not jump up and appear on-screen
until I click on the task bar icon and select the document.
I'd prefer that the opening document automatically become the active
document/window. Suggestions appreciated!
Elchanan
Hmm. If Writer is already open but minimised then what you see is what I
get too. If Writer is not open then double clicking a document causes it
to open *and* to appear on screen. I have no idea why; it doesn't happen
with other Windows software For example, if I have my text editor open
but minimised and double click a .txt file, the file appears on screen
in the editor. This is the same as if the text editor were not already
open. I think this is a bug as Writer's behaviour does not seem to
conform to normal Windows guidelines.
It's the opposite, Writer does it exactly as Windows wants it. If the
desktop does not give the focus to a new task window this window must
not steel it instead.
The behavior of the Windows desktop has changed with WinXP (2000?). If
you run the same version of OOo on Win98 you will see that the new OOo
window always gets the focus - because Windows decided to do so. That
should show you that OOo just follows the OS guide lines. If you don't
like them - blame the desktop, not OOo.
Ciao,
Mathias
The problem is Quickstarter
If Quickstarter is running the action of opening the first new document
leaves the button on the task bar flashing, but does not open the window.
If quickstrarter is not running double clicking a document does open the
window on the desktop.
Technically then, perhaps, OOo is correct as the application is already
running but from the users perspective it is wrong.
But from a users stand point it is the first document being opened, so
it should open directly to the desktop. The action you are describing
may be correct, per the guidlines, when an SDI application is already up
and running and as I say technically OOo is running when Quickstarter is
- but, that doesn't make this a correct behavior or at least not the
optimal behavior.
Drew
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