Re: minor dialog issue/question

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2011.12.29 20:10, Jack wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> The "Checking Mail..." window seems to have "stay on top" set,  
> because while it's checking, I can change mailboxes or messages, and  
> the dialog does stay on top.  The same is not true, however, of the  
> "Sending Mail..." dialog, which goes underneath if I click anywhere  
> on the main window.
>
> Is this known?  Is it intentional?  I'd prefer that both of them stay  
> on top, and I'll be glad to file a bug/whishlist for it, as long as  
> I'm not bringing up some old issue already talked to death.

Well, I actually looked into the code to see if I might be able to  
attack this myself, as it seems it ought to be simple, but I see why it  
might not be.  The only difference I see between the send and receive  
dialogs is that the receive one is tied to the main window, and the  
send one is not tied to any window.  I can see that the send dialog  
cannot be tied to the window that was active when it was created -  
since that would be the draft message itself, which goes away as soon  
as the send is triggered.  I'm not sure how easy it would be to connect  
it to the main window because I'm not sure the window reference is  
easily available when that dialog is created.  Also, I've actually had  
a time when the create message window was on a different virtual  
desktop from the main window, and I'm not sure what would or should  
happen in that case.  If the dialog window is on the "current" virtual  
desktop, then there might be no other balsa window visible to connect  
it with, and if you connect it with the main window would it  
immediately show up on that virtual desktop, thus immediately  
disappearing from the current one?

I'm still interested in this, so I'd love to hear any relevant comments  
or suggestions.

Thanks.

Jack