A bug in WinVNC 3.3.3r7!

[Peaks, Jeremy]

This does the trick, set forground!  I have, however, made a mistake in my earlier reply.  By setting the dialog as modal, it puts the dialog at the front, but does not set its focus in Win95.  Therefore, if a user continues to type, it will not trigger the Accept button (or any other button for that matter).  I havn't tested its effect with Win98 yet, but I would imagine since the dialog got the focus ok with Win98 before, it will continue to do so now, therefore continuing to type will still trigger Accept for that format.

Jeremy Peaks

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 ?'EInteresting.  The other thing to try would be Set foreground, which is

another available dialog option.  have you tried that?  At least under NT 5

that works as you'd like.



NT and Win95 have different semantics for dialogs - Win95 still assumes a

very Win3.1-centric model, in which only one application is "important" at

any one time.  Partly because it's unlikely that any two applications will

run on the same machine without crashing it for more than an hour or so.. ;P

(*)  WinNT has a more mature view, in which if the user is doing something,

it's wrong to force them to change focus unless you really must.



Cheers,



James "Wez" Weatherall

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(*)  No flames, please!  Just an observation about Win3.1...



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> Thanks for that.  The problem does still occur even when the user is not

touching anything.  From what you were saying, as a work-around I have made

the dialog box modal, which works.  Unfortunately as you say, if the user is

in the middle of typing then this will inadvertantly accept the connection,

but it works for our purposes as a connection would only be made when the

user is prepared for it anyway.

>

> Even so, any idea why this should only occur with Win95?

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