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Comment styles palette opens in the background

Post by mash_inc »

Tested with FullDemo.exe:

If I perform a right click on any commenting tool (like line, rectange etc.) and then click on "Comment Style Palette" it seems as if nothing happens.

After a while I found out that the palette is there, but hidden behind the main window.
I need to shrink the main window and dock it. After restarting FullDemo I have the same problem again.

I think that showing tool windows in the background is not a good default.
How can I change the default, so that the palette gets visible after a click on "Comment Style Palette".

Maybe I overlook something here, but in my opinion docking of this tool window does not make much sense to me. Why not showing it always on top?

Best regards,
Tino
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Re: Comment styles palette opens in the background

Post by Sasha - PDF-XChange »

Hello mash_inc,

Are you trying this on the clean FullDemo project? You could have modified your solution so that it behaves like that.

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Re: Comment styles palette opens in the background

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Yes, it's in the clean FullDemo project.

And also in our own DemoProject.

Cheers,
Tino
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Re: Comment styles palette opens in the background

Post by Sasha - PDF-XChange »

Hello Tino,

We've reproduced the issue - we will investigate why does it occur and will reply.

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Re: Comment styles palette opens in the background

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Hi,

any news on this topic?

Thanks,

Tino
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Re: Comment styles palette opens in the background

Post by Sasha - PDF-XChange »

Hello mash_inc,

I wrote to the developer who implemented this feature - will write back as soon as he replies.

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Re: Comment styles palette opens in the background

Post by Sasha - PDF-XChange »

Hello Tino,

Had a reply from the developer. He said that the .Net gives some unexpected problems that look like some inner .Net code workarounds of some sort. At the moment, when our ActiveX component initializes, the .Net form has some unknown parent window.
He said that he made a fix in our code to overcome this behavior though this requires a lot of testing first, because this can potentially break the popup-windows' correct behavior in the non-Editor context (internet browser, SDK component on the form etc.).

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Re: Comment styles palette opens in the background

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Hi Alex,

thanks for the information.
Is it possible to get the new version soon, so that we can test if it fixes the problem in our environment?
No problem if it is a beta version.

Please also take a look at the new topic below, because it might needs fixing as well.

https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/ ... 66&t=28006

Best regards
Tino
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Re: Comment styles palette opens in the background

Post by Sasha - PDF-XChange »

Hello Tino,

Well we will deploy a dev. build soon - I will inform you about this.

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