Re: Help window should not obscure Tortoise dialog

On 11 February 2010 17:20, Davison, Steve D <steve.d.davison_at_intel.com> wrote:
> Lorenz wrote:
>
>
>>I don't really get what you are complaining about. Ok, the
>>help window is "always on top", but you can minimize it,
>>resize it, move it aside, it even remembers the position
>>and size.
>  Ah, so you can.  I almost always switch apps with Alt-Tab,
> and didn't expect that that alone would be blocked.  Still,
> I wonder why one would want "always on top"?  Unless there
> is some benefit from it (which I am very curious to hear..)
> it seemed like something that could be changed very easily.

I agree with you, I just don't know how to change it right now.

>>Open the help from the start menu ...
> ... an inconvenient workaround that I overlooked.

You can also get to it from the normal context menu. You can even
promote it to the top level along with Update and Commit if you want.

> [ Using Tortoise, perhaps w/ multiple dialogs open.  Need
> help.  Click on help.  Must use mouse to switch back and
> forth (I know, Waaaa.. :).  Also note: when I Alt-tab,
> the help window shows up as a turtle icon, so it's not
> obvious which I want to switch to.  Close dialog because
> I'm done with it.  Oops, where did help go?  Lost my place
> and my browse history. ]
>  I'm using XP; perhaps it's not a problem in win7.

Almost certainly the same in all versions. The help window closes when
its parent window closes.

Simon

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