How to Turn Off "Always on Top"

[MkMr]

When I launch our HTML help file from our application the help window is always on top of the main application window. I'm wonder what setting I use to turn this off. This is so when someone clicks the application window in the task bar the help file doesn't pop up in front of it.

I don't have "Use Topmost Window Style" checked in the HTML Help Setup tab of the skin properties but it doesn't matter.

Thanks for any help,
Mark

[Pete Lees]

Hi, Mark,

I believe the solution to this issue lies in the hands of the application developer with whom you're working. See this thread:

http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 101#p29806

Pete

[MkMr]

Ahhh... thanks for the help, Pete.

We are using C# so we used System.Windows.Forms.Help.ShowHelp(null, ...) to launch the help. Passing null to this function, beneath the hood, always uses the launching app window handle (even though we were passing null).

Here's what I did to get around this - basically use a dummy window that you don't make visible:

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		static private Form dummyHelpWindowParent;
		static public void DoUserGuide(hkClassEnum sel)
		{
			String topicTitle = "UI.htm";

			// If we know what the selection's class is, get its topic title
			if (sel != hkClassEnum.None)
			    topicTitle = GetChmTitleFromClassType(sel);
			
			// Get the path to the chm
			String path = hkDirectoryUtils.GetAppPath() + "help.chm";

			// Launch the help using a dummy window since the normal ShowHelp(null, ... ) call always uses the launched app window (not the null passed)
            if (dummyHelpWindowParent == null) 
				dummyHelpWindowParent = new Form();
			System.Windows.Forms.Help.ShowHelp(dummyHelpWindowParent, path, System.Windows.Forms.HelpNavigator.Topic, topicTitle);
		}

This works well for us. Hope it helps someone else.

Mark

[roland414]

Thank you so much for these info.