Re: "Always on Top" Keyholes

At 9/11/2005 03:45 PM, Scott Meyers wrote:
>>My copy of ACDSee 5 has an AOT Keyhole in its help system, in that the help
>>window insists on being on top of all other ACDSee 5 windows, but windows
>>for other applications may be on top of all ACDSee 5 windows, so this is an
>>intra-application AOT keyhole.
>
>I just noticed the same thing in the help system for FileZilla, and both
>use HTML Help, so this looks to be a Microsoft HTML Help thing; googling
>around the newsgroups supports this conclusion.

I just went to add this example to the keyholes talk I'll be giving at ACCU next month (http://accu.org/index.php/conferences/2006/schedule/schedule_060421#f31), and I found out that if I open help in either Filezilla or ACDC 5, help insists on being on top of the main app window, but it doesn't disable the main app window.  So help isn't a modal dialog.  In fact, if I then bring up a modal dialog from the main app window, the dialog goes on top of the help window, so the help window isn't always on top!  So it's more like an "always on top of the main app window" keyhole.  Very strange....

Scott