The discussion in http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3997 and offline makes it seem as if the z-order problem is very hard to get right. Yet there is some urgency to solving this problem for at least the most popular apps that suffer from it. So, perhaps it's time to consider solving it wrong.
I wrote:
- /* photoshop cs installer wizard should not hide "please close" dialog */
- if (style == (WS_CLIPSIBLINGS|WS_POPUP)) return TRUE;
Now, I realize this is probably wrong, but it gets both Photoshop CS's installer and Bricscad 8's installer past their z-order problems. What would it break? (If it's not obvious, I'm not very well informed about window styles, window management, and all that.)
If the patch I proposed would break too many things, perhaps we should make it conditional on particular executables, with the list of executables configurable via the registry and winecfg, as we do with library overrides. That way the damage would be limited.
Thoughts? - Dan
"Dan Kegel" dank@kegel.com writes:
So, perhaps it's time to consider solving it wrong.
You must be new around here ;)
Now, I realize this is probably wrong, but it gets both Photoshop CS's installer and Bricscad 8's installer past their z-order problems. What would it break? (If it's not obvious, I'm not very well informed about window styles, window management, and all that.)
It would break any app that happens to use that style for a menu or tooltip or whatever. The proper way is to make windows managed dynamically depending on the behavior of the app, i.e. detect that a dialog is popped up behind a non-managed window and make the front window managed at that point.
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Alexandre Julliard -
Dan Kegel