Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Win NT: Dialog Stays in Foreground

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:41:34 -0700 (PDT)
> Running Ethereal v0.8.10 Win binary on NT v4.0 SP6a
> 
> There are several menus that stay in the foreground after using ALT-Tab to
> switch to a different application.
> 
> 1) File/Edit/Capture  (etc)
> 
> 2) Right-Click menu when highlighting a captured packet.
> 
> Shouldn't these menus be moved to the background?

Perhaps they should, but it's almost certainly not Ethereal that's
responsible for their position, it's GTK+-on-Win32 - Ethereal relies on
GTK+ (the window system toolkit it uses) to do the right thing for those
low-level GUI operations.

You should probably speak to the GTK+-on-Win32 maintainer, Tor
Lillqvist; see the GTK+ and GIMP for Windows page at

	http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/

and let him know that

	1) Ethereal uses the 2000-04-16 version of GTK+-on-Win32;

	2) Ethereal requires a GTK+ and GLib that are compatible with
	   GTK+ 1.2[.x], so if he says "fixed in a later version" but
	   that version won't work with programs written for GTK+
	   1.2[.x] (as opposed to the not-yet-released GTK+ 2.0),
	   Ethereal can't use the later version;

and be aware that if a later GTK+-for-Windows isn't binary compatible
with older versions, you won't be able to use it with current Ethereal
binaries.