Re: Help window should not obscure Tortoise dialog

On 10 February 2010 23:49, Steve Davison <AgentFriday_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> When I open help (F1 on "help" button) from any Tortoise dialog, I can no longer get to that dialog until I close the help window.
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> This is EXTREMELY annoying.  Most of the time I want to refer back and forth between the help and the dialog I'm trying to get help with.  Or I may wish to leave help open and close the dialog from which I opened the help.  These are all valid and useful things one may wish to do.
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> How about just opening the help window, with its own task button and Alt-tab icon--you know, like happens ordinarily if you just start a new application.  Then I could still get to all the open dialogs as needed, and I can close the help dialog whenever I wish (or do not wish) to.
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> Many other programs are able to do this.  (And yes, unfortunately, other programs also do strange things like Tortoise does in this case, and I've never understood why.)

There is an option in the help file compilation to set the
always-on-top flag. I agree it would be better not set, but I'm not
sure how to change it as the help compiler project file (.hhp) is
generated automagically during our build process. Also, looking at the
generated .hhp file it seems to be correct, so I am baffled. Lübbe, do
you know where to make the change?

In the meantime the minimise button will get the window out of the way
temporarily.

Simon

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