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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Custom Layouts
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:16:33 -0500
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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> 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 am using Ver 5.15 and have overlapping windows, Detail on top, PE
behind Details to the right and siblings and children behind PE to the
upper right and lower right and the layout opens correctly. Lee hoffman
thinks it is a new problem and will report it.

bob gillis


> 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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