Window refuses to leave foreground

brogoff · Post by **brogoff** » Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:43 pm

The TextPad window stays in the foreground no matter what other windows I click. It allows other windows to have focus but I have to manually minimize TextPad to make it leave the foreground. I've used the product for many years and this behavior started for no apparent reason.

Windows 10 1703 15063.608

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:53 pm

Is
Configure | Preferences | View | Stay on top of other windows
or, equivalently,
<Alt+Space> | Stay on Top
selected?

brogoff · Post by **brogoff** » Tue Sep 19, 2017 5:12 pm

I have absolutely no idea how that box got checked, or that it existed. Another Windows mystery.

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:31 pm

Maybe the cat did it.

brogoff · Post by **brogoff** » Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:40 pm

I don't have a cat. My dogs are smart but have trouble pressing the right keys on the keyboard with their nails.

Most likely it was software rot. I've seen it many times before on Windows. Something that worked perfectly yesterday doesn't work right today and you could spend the rest of your life looking for the reason.

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Window refuses to leave foreground

Window refuses to leave foreground

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