Re: Minor annoyance with Windows Help in pgAdmin

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Alan Corey <acorey(at)registrar(dot)umass(dot)edu>
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Minor annoyance with Windows Help in pgAdmin
Date: 2005-03-28 10:25:53
Message-ID: 4247DBB1.3030604@pse-consulting.de
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Alan Corey wrote:
> This is only an annoyance, not a major bug.
>
> The help window is too much a child of the application window. If I
> have the application open, then click the help button, Help opens, and I
> can minimize it when I'm done. If I then minimize the application, when
> I pop it back up the help comes up on top of it. Minimizing the
> application makes the icon for the minimized help go away, as though
> it's been absorbed somehow.
>
> This is with pgAdmin 1.2.0, under Windows 2000.
>
> I have found that a workaround is to open Help from the Start Menu
> shortcut, then the two function independently. With most programs
> though, this is what happens when opening Help from within the program.

Yes, this is a "feature" of win32 htmlhelp, I find this annoying too
(besides some other ill-behaviour). Please complain in Redmond... you
may cite me.

Regards,
Andreas

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