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Title: Help plugin steels focus on "Locate in"
Post by: MortenMacFly on March 21, 2006, 09:17:42 pm
Dear all,
I really like the feature "Locate in" provided by the help plugin. But I have the following problem: If it's a CHM file than it is being opened at the desired topic and gets the focus. So far so good, but I cannot switch back to C::B until I close the help file. It loks like the help file is opened "modal" then. Anyone else experincing the same on Windows?
With regards, Morten.
Ps.: Version 1.0 revision 2218 (gcc 3.4.4 Windows/unicode, build: Mar 20 2006 18:07:59)
Title: Re: Help plugin steels focus on "Locate in"
Post by: takeshimiya on March 21, 2006, 09:27:44 pm
That's how all CHM files are opened on every app on windows, it's completely normal.
Title: Re: Help plugin steels focus on "Locate in"
Post by: MortenMacFly on March 21, 2006, 09:55:28 pm
Quote from: Takeshi Miya on March 21, 2006, 09:27:44 pm
That's how all CHM files are opened on every app on windows, it's completely normal.
Alright, allthough it's kind of annoying. I mean: If I open an CHM file without keyword search it works without stealing the focus, too. I guess only M$ knows why this makes sense... ;-)
Thanks for the information anyway!
With regards, Morten.
Title: Re: Help plugin steels focus on "Locate in"
Post by: Pecan on March 21, 2006, 10:33:49 pm
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the help file is opened "modal"

I too find this completely annoying. It completely covers
CB on my little linux laptop. I quite using the help plugin
because of it, though, it's not a help plugin fault.

I tried a couple of utilities that were advertised as being able
to reset the attributes of "alway-on-top" windows. But they didn't work for .chm's.

Alas, someday, I'll find a way to zap 'em.

thanks
pecan
Title: Re: Help plugin steels focus on "Locate in"
Post by: MortenMacFly on March 21, 2006, 10:48:30 pm
Quote from: Pecan on March 21, 2006, 10:33:49 pm
Alas, someday, I'll find a way to zap 'em.
Don't worry about that too much, this issue is not a show stopper at all.
With regards, Morten.
Title: Re: Help plugin steels focus on "Locate in"
Post by: Ceniza on March 22, 2006, 08:54:20 pm
If you open a CHM file without a keyword search it'll launch it with the associated program, but if you do that with a keyword search it'll use wxWidgets functions for CHM which unfortunately steal focus.

I noticed that already but couldn't find a way to "hack" it.