Summary of Modal Dialog Behavior

[Keith Seitz]

Whoops. One ommission...

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Keith Seitz wrote:

> Unix (tested on linux)
> Any ModalDialog will stay on top of ANYTHING that is placed over it,
> including other applications. It's also very, very slow to raise itself,
> even after I change the "keep_raised" interval.
>
> Error dialogs are transient on their parents, but when the parent is
> focused after being (partially) obscured by another window, neither the
> parent nor the dialog comes to the top (or has the focus). The parent is
> correctly blocked from all input, though.

All input to ANY window is blocked. This is really, really bad.

Keith