Harold Fuchs wrote: > I meant that Writer is minimised in the Windows (and other GUI?) sense > i.e. there's an icon in the task bar but nothing else showing on the > desk top. So I got you right in the first place.
> For the avoidance of doubt, the thing I see is as follows: > 1. Quickstarter is *not* running (I never run it). > 2. I double click a Writer document in Windows Explorer. At this point > Writer opens *and* displays the document. > 3. I minimise (in the Microsoft Windows sense of that word) the > Writer/document window. > 4. I double click a *different* document in Windows Explorer. > 5. Writer opens this second document *but does not* display it. The > Writer window stays minimised. > > If I had not minimised the window i.e. if I had omitted #3 above then, > when I double click the second document it is opened *and* displayed - > actually obscuring the first document. > > Now, it seems to me that the state (minimised or not) of the first > window should *not* influence the behaviour of the second. Unfortunately Windows sees it differently. This is exactly the case I described. While the same code in OOo brings each new window to front on Win98 it lets every window flash in the taskbar on WinXP - except the first one. This is how Windows wants an SDI application to behave. I must confess that I also don't like this behavior. But at the end we had to fullfil the request to be platform compliant. > Also, Mathias, please what other sense of minimise did you think I > meant? On other OS's does OO open multiple documents in the same window > and thus allow individual documents to be minimised within that window? Some people would say that the Quickstarter is a "minimized OOo". I wasn't sure if that was what you meant. But we sorted that out. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
