[Xastir] Cygwin: Getting transient dialogs ok?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Matt Werner wrote:

> >One user nearby reported that his Cygwin box isn't popping up
> >bulletins, incoming mail dialogs, things like that.
> >
> >Anyone else having that sort of trouble?
>
> Yes.  If xastir isn't currently the active window (or maybe it just happens
> if it is minimized) then the dialog box will show up on the task bar but it
> is impossible to get it to show up on the screen.  One has to go to the
> task bar and right click on that window and click close - there is no way
> to recover it.  I've found that when people send me a message and it does
> this I just close the window and then go to view/message traffic and look
> for it there.
>
> I've always assumed it was a cygwin problem, but maybe not...

Can you add that information to the bug report on SourceForge?

It may be a Cygwin bug, or it may just require us to create our
transient dialogs in Xastir using some other mechanism.

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