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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Jean-Pierre,

I have just pushed a fix for the problem you describe (revision 6132).
Please let me know if it works for you.

Regards,
Orson

On 08/25/2015 10:59 AM, jp charras wrote:
> Hi, Orson.
> 
> I have a usability issue in GAL mode (Windows specific, at least W7 32
> bits) when a Pcbnew canvas uses the GAL mode.
> When mouse cursor enters the canvas area, the frame immediately has the
> focus and is brought to the to top level, even it is not the current top
> level frame.
> This creates usability issues when more than one Kicad frame is opened.
> 
> If, for instance, the board editor is currently open, and if the
> footprint editor (or the 3d viewer, or any other Kicad frame) is open
> and partially overlaps the board editor canvas (usual case when you have
> only one monitor) and is the top level frame, as soon as the mouse
> enters the board editor canvas area, the current top level frame is
> lowered, and the board editor becomes the top level frame.
> 
> The more annoying consequence:
> if (for instance) the 3D viewer (or the footprint viewer) viewer has a
> small size and is entirely contained in the canvas area, it becomes not
> visible, sometimes unreachable because each time the mouse cursor enters
> an exposed area of the board editor GAL canvas, the board editor becomes
> the top level frame, and the other frame is lowered behind the board
> editor frame) .
> 
> This issues, obviously, does not happen on Linux.
>

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