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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Custom Layouts
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:01:54 -0800
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On or about 12/3/2005 12:36 PM a carrier pigeon from Laurie Williams delivered:

>That's what I've been trying to say. I have been leaving the Detail window
>on top when I exit (which is also where it was when the layout was saved),
>but when TMG opens the next time, the Detail window is underneath again. It
>doesn't matter where the windows are (relative to which window is on top)
>when I exit TMG or when the layout is saved. They still come up in the same
>order.

I seem to vaguely recall this discussion back when TMG5 was
in release... I don't think there /is/ a control for the /order of
opening/. I suspect the code is just running down a list of all
possible windows, in some code defined order, and for each candidate
window, testing a flag for "window is visible". If a window is
visiible, it then retrieves the saved coordinates for rendering the
window. The order of windows would be however the code lists them.

If you look at the *.lo file, you'll notice that there is no
defined ordering entry, it is just a sorted list of parameter=value
pairs... At best, the order is controlled by the order in the file
(I've not tried reordering the various frm* entries), in which case,
windows look to open in the sequence: explorer, details, flags,
children, siblings, personimage, focus (based upon the order the
coordinates are listed in my normal .lo file -- the xxxxstate
parameter controls if the window is visible or not.

One reason my normal layout has no overlapping windows.
Flags, focus, and explorer are not visible in my normal view.
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