Tor says:
# Yes, this is a known misfeature... Not very high
# priority to fix. (It's not like there were dozens
# of programmers working on GTK+ for Windows, just
# waiting for bug reports ;-)
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 24 August, 2000 06:42 PM
> To: Mark Symons
> Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ethereal-users] Win NT: Dialog Stays in Foreground
>
>
> > 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.
>
