Items 'pop up' from behind Window List

juanian

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Here is a problem I have had when using the Window List -- sometimes clicking in the Window List does things to the application *behind* the PL/SQL Developer window.

Try the following:
Open two copies of PL/SQL Developer (let's call them PSD#1 and PSD#2).
Make sure that the Browser is open in both.
Open and position the Window List below the browser in both.
In both PSDs, if necessary, move the divider between the Browser and the Window List 'up' (to the same location) so the scroll bar appears in the Browser.
In PSD#1, move the divider below the Browser 'up' (to a point higher than PSD#2),
and move the divider to the right of the Browser 'right', and open some windows.
Alt-tab between the two PSDs, and find the spot where the Browser scroll bar in PSD#2 overlaps the Window List in PSD#1; position the mouse cursor at that location.
Go to PSD #1, and click at that overlap position.
(You should see the scroll bar from PSD#2 'flash' on the screen when you let go of the mouse button.)

In using PL/SQL Developer, I have occasionally seen oddities pop up occasionally, and I didn't know what they were. In rare occasions, I have had one PSD 'look' like the frontmost application, but clicking the mouse slowly brings up graphical elements from another PSD behind it (like the other copy of PSD somehow became frontmost, but didn't redraw itself).

Actually, things pop up from whatever window is behind PSD, not just another PSD window, but it was easier to just keep this example using two copies of PSD.

I'd attach a picture of it, but I don't know how to post an image (and I don't have access to host an image at the moment).

EDIT: One note: You must click on a Window List item that is not the current frontmost window.

EDIT: Another note: Double-clicking will usually cause the oddity where stuff from both windows intermingles.
 
Have you been able to reproduce this?

I have tried this on a few other PCs here, and I have been able to reproduce this on some (but not all) PCs here. Others here have also seen things 'popping up' from behind the PL/SQL Developer window when they have been using PSD.
 
So, with the description in this thread (of how to reproduce this) and the discription in the thread listed in the post from Worker, can this problem be reproduced?

I am using Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2. (I'll try disabling all hardware acceleration to see if it helps, but I doubt it will make any difference, since no other applications have exhibited this issue.) Are there some DLLs I can give you the version on to help?
 
You mention that your problem is the same as the one referred to by Worker. This should be fixed though. Can you let me know your exact PL/SQL Developer version?
 
The current version -- 7.1.4.1390

EDIT: And just FYI, disabling hardware acceleration (and setting my system to use a single monitor) made no difference.
 
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