Re: Mathematica 7 Palettes Stays in front of notebook window,
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- Subject: [mg94528] Re: Mathematica 7 Palettes Stays in front of notebook window,
- From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:48:32 -0500 (EST)
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This is the general behavior for palettes. You can change this through a sequence of front end commands. However, when you update your Mathematica to a new version the behavior that you are seeing will return (because the palettes will also be updated). Palettes are "floating windows" so that they are available to be used to interact with a notebook while that notebook is being worked with. The reason why you are just noticing it is because the ones that you are seeing are now wider than earlier, simpler, palettes and the screen realestate that they occupy is greater. For a small screen the experience is indeed that they may "get in the way." --David On Dec 14, 7:38 am, "Nasser Abbasi" <n... at 12000.org> wrote: > I noticed in Mathematica 7 (this in on XP, SP2) that when I have a Palett= es > window open (I am talking about the Palettes which come as part of > Mathematica 7 itself), then when I click on my notebook window, the Palet= tes > remain in FRONT of my notebook window, blocking the view, and I have to > manually move them to the side. > > They never seem to want to go to the BACK of the notebook window. They wa= nt > to remain in the front of my notebook. > > Please see the following screen shot, where I clicked on my notebook wind= ow, > and you can see that it is the one which has the current focus, yet, the > Palette window did not go to the background as one would expect things to > bechave on windows. > > http://12000.org/tmp/dec_12_2008/Mathematica7_windows_problem.PNG > > Is this by design, or may be this can be changed by some command or a > preference setting? Otherwise, I think this behavior should really be fix= ed. > > Thanks, > Nasser
