tip-of-the-day vs. the main window

David Hampton hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net
Tue Jan 3 20:04:50 EST 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 23:02 -0500, David Hampton wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 18:03 -0500, David Reiser wrote:
> > Also, the totd window behaves differently if invoked from the help  
> > menu than if it gets created at launch. The launch version will stay  
> > behind the main window, or can go back behind the main window if the  
> > user clicks on the main window. The totd created from the Help menu  
> > insists on appearing in front of (and blocking the view of a portion  
> > of) the main screen -- even if the user clicks on the main menu and  
> > starts working there.
> 
> This is definitely a window manager issue.  I always see the totd float
> above other gnucash windows.  I've now changed the code so that you
> should be able to bring the main window to the front.

I've been convinced to flip this and fix the code so the totd dialog is
always on top.  Please let me know if this is not the case for you using
svn 12253 or better.

David




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