Main window buried when launched

Question

The program launches, the menu appears at the top, but if there are any other program windows open, the main Inbox window hides behind them. I have to click on the Mail icon in the dock to bring it forward.
I know it's not a major problem, but it never did that before.
Permissions repaired and disk verified OK. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I can reproduce your issue. The MainWindow gets deactivated. This happens when one windows owns a second, which in turn owns a third window and is actually not a WPF issue but a Win32 one:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3144004/wpf-app-loses-completely-focus-on-window-close
The easiest work around in your case is to not set the Owner property of the SettingsWindow in the settings_btn_Click event handler in MainWindow:
private void settings_btn_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
//REMOVE THIS LINE: settings.Owner = this;
if (!settings.IsVisible)
settings.Show();
else
settings.Activate();
For all child windows to still get closed as expected when you close the MainWindow you can then set the Shutdown mode property of the application to OnMainWindowClose in your App.xaml:
<Application x:Class="InformationAlt.App"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml" ShutdownMode="OnMainWindowClose">
<Application.Resources>
</Application.Resources>
</Application>
Hope that helps.
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