Open Bug 228564 Opened 22 years ago Updated 3 years ago

nsIBaseWindow method for gaining focus on the desktop

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: mscott, Unassigned)

Details

Spin off of Bug #104237. On windows, simple mapi calls can be used to bring up a compose window from another app such as word or excel. Currently the compose window comes up behind that running app when it should come to the front. We were able to work around this by adding some Windows specific code for forcing the compose window to the front in mail compose. However, this code snippet (hwndForDOMWindow and activateWindow) are copied around in at least 2 other places in the tree. And they are windows only. It would be really nice if there was a generic method to make this happen that worked on ALL platforms. Maybe a method on nsIBaseWindow or nsIXULWindow? This would fix the following: 1) the compose window would now come to the front on any OS and not just windows when invoked from another application. 2)we would remove this code duplication for windows
Assignee: jag → nobody
Severity: normal → S3
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