A bug in WinVNC 3.3.3r7!

[Arnt Witteveen]

Can't the window simply get the always-on-top style? This does not imply
focus, see e.g. with any (non-html style) help set to keep help on top...
then switch back to any other window...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peaks, Jeremy [mailto:Jeremy.Peaks "at" maff.gsi.gov.uk]
> Sent: donderdag 1 juni 2000 19:00
> To: Arnt.Witteveen "at" vartec.be
> Subject: RE: A bug in WinVNC 3.3.3r7!
> 
> 
> 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 A
> cc
> 
> 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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> 
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> 
> 
> 
> (*)  No flames, please!  Just an observation about Win3.1...
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> 
> 
> > 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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