IChat Version 5.0.1 Always on Top
How can I make my text chat and video chat window *Always on Top*...? So I can surf the web and work in other programs while still seeing the other person or their text.
Chax(plugin for iChat) has a "always on top" in iChats menu bar/window
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20056/chax
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I have installed latest version of FF
It started off great for a few hours and then it happened, ALWAYS ON TOP
I have to shut down and start again
no additional add-ons have been installed, it is out of the box
Can you please fix this? I have the same issue with chrome which is a great browser however it actually is so problematic for me that I switched to mozilla. However you have the same problem.
Help please.
Regards
-=DWhen this happens, can you force all windows to minimize as a workaround (instead of shutting down), then choose the desired window from the jump list on the Firefox icon on the task bar? Either:
* Window key + d
* Window key + m
* click the unmarked vertical button at the far right end of the Windows task bar
I can't think of a way for a web page to put itself in front of all other applications, but perhaps it could do so using a plugin.
Have you noticed any pattern in the sites where this happens? -
Flash always on top in Safari 5.0.5
Hi,
I have some problems with flash in Safari 5.0.5 with Flash Player 10.2. My flash banners is always on top and covers menus and popups. wmode and z-index seems to be correct. It works as expected in the latest nightly build of webkit and Google Chrome, but not Safari.
Here is the webpage, scroll down and you will see the flash covering the top menu: http://www.booli.se/bostad/villa/hisingen/plockerotegatan+16/786830
I found this question on the same topic (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2458855?start=0&tstart=0) where the problem was said to be solved with Safari 5.0.1. A test site was set up in that thread by user suastegui which can be found here: http://www.guru.ag/fl2/iframeTest/index.html. On this page the flash is still covering the other elements for me.
Any ideas?BBC iPlayer relies on Adobe Air. AIR 1.5.3 is the last version of AIR that supports Mac PowerPC and Windows 2000. AIR applications that require AIR 2 or later cannot be installed or used on a Macintosh PowerPC or a computer running the Windows 2000 operating system.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/853/cpsid_85304.html
I am in the same boat. I cannot watch flash videos on the BBC website or on BBC iPlayer, although all other flash videos (YouTube for example) are fine.
For reasons that passeth all understanding, they work with the PPC version of Firefox, called TenFourFoxG5.app, once you have anabled plug-ins, as it does not natively support Flash.
You can download TenFourFoxG5 from here:
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
Now for the intersting bit: TenFourFox, like Firefox, does not support most plug-ins. Unless you are prone to headaches (in which case don't) you can read about that here:
http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/PluginsNoLongerSupported
But there is a workaround!
Open TenFourFox and type in the address bar: about:config (no spaces) and click return. This gives you a warning that it might harm the application. Ignore that and click on 'I'll be careful, I promise' and you get the config file that you can edit - with great care.
Look/search (scroll down) for: tenfourfox.plugins.enabled
Set it to true. (Double click it to toggle it)
Now close TenFourFox, open it again, and Flash will now work, as it now uses the plug-ins that Safari has stored.
I am using Flash 10.1.102.64 in TenFourFox and it works just fine. -
Dreamweaver Panels - Only one panel visible at a time, others get obscured even with Always On Top.
I have a problem with my Dreamweaver MX, and it is that I can only see one panel at a time, any other open panels get obscured. For example, with the work space maximized, and having the properties and behaviors panels open, I can only see one of the panels at the same time. If I click on any area of the work space each open panel will display and with the next click the other will display. If I make the work space smaller then the whole area of my screen, and move any open panels outside of the Dreamweaver work space, only then they will stay visible. I know this is not normal behavior, because I used to be able to see all the open panels simultaneously, with the work space maximized to use all the screen area. I went to Preferences> Panels> Always On Top, and all the checkmarks are still set, so as to keep all panels on top at all times, but this does no longer be the case. Can someone tell me what happened here, and how I can get back to being able to see all the open panels? BTW, I tried installing older version of Dreamweaver 4, and the same thing happens to both installed versions. This is extremely annoying!
Thanks. -Al.Since I upgraded to Firefox 19 from 18.0.2, on my Windows XP (SP3) laptop, I, too, can no longer open a new window. File-->New Window does nothing; also can no longer tear off a tab and open it in a new window (it stays where it is). Also, if I right-click on a tab and select Move to New Window, nothing happens. All of these worked fine in FF 18.0.2. All of these work fine with FF 19 on Windows 7. Only an issue on my XP laptop.
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JInternalframe always on top instead of overlapping
Hello guys,
I have some JInternalFrames but one window paints its content above all, even overlapping frames. The code looks like this:
package visnav.bachelor.gallery;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.Insets;
import java.awt.ScrollPane;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.util.Vector;
import java.lang.Math;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
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import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
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import visnav.bachelor.preview.PreviewMap_Ext;
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import visnav.common.DBListener;
import visnav.common.Options;
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* @author Florian Kratschmann
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* Constructor which creates a new Gallery object.
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* A modified version of FlowLayout that allows containers using this Layout
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// return new Dimension(120, 300);
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Cheers,
FloAs the title I can have inside a JDesktopPane some JinternalFrame "always on top" compared to one that makes the background?You might get better help by explaining what you want to achieve, rather than how you want to achieve it.
You can do custom painting in a JDesktopPane, you know.
db -
HI, I have search a lot about Always on Top Frame, but couldn't found the solution of my problem.
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If I use JPanel, I dont found the functionalities like WindowClosing, Settitle etc etc.
Please help me to get rid of this annoying problem. I want exactly something like JBuilder or Photoshop functionality where property windows are always on top and also seperate with the application.But I got this error while using 1.5
"ConnectionPool.java": cannot access java.lang.Object,bad class file: C:\Program Files\Java\j2sdk1.5.0\jre\lib\rt.jar\java\lang\Object.class,class file has wrong version 49.0, should be 48.0,Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath. at line 13, column 11
"DBIdentifier.java": cannot access java.lang.String,bad class file: C:\Program Files\Java\j2sdk1.5.0\jre\lib\rt.jar\java\lang\String.class,class file has wrong version 49.0, should be 48.0,Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath. at line 12, column 11
Everything works fine in 1.4
Please Help
Thanks -
Make modal dialog box "Always on Top"
i know there has been discussion about Frame always on top etc. but i have a slightly different problem.
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PMThis solution works for me under J2SDK v1.4.2_03. If you were to use it on a large scale, you'd probably want to develop a bit more of a formalized framework for it.
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AWTUtilities.centerWindow(test_frame, null);
test_frame.setVisible(true); -
Hi all,
My application needs an always on top window and I used a dll written
by Mitch Goldstein. It works perfectly on jvm 1.3.1, but when I try it
on jvm1.4.1 which is more popular today than 1.3.1, it just doesn't
work, without any exceptions.
Can anybody give some hints? Thanks a lot.
The "Always on top" package written by Mitch Goldstein with examples
can be downloaded from the following address:
http://www.esus.com/javaindex/j2se/jdk1.2/javaxswing/toplevelcontainers/jframe/jframealwaysontop.htmlFor JRE 1.3 and above, the following code addresses the issue of having two windows with the same title. The function takes a Frame as a parameter, gets the HWND using the AWT Native Interface, and then calls SetWindowPos. Agreed, this code is far more complicated than smg123's solution, but if there's a chance of two windows having the same title, it's probably better to use this:JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_JSystem_setWindowAlwaysOnTop__Ljava_awt_Frame_2Z (JNIEnv *env, jclass cls, jobject frame, jboolean flag)
typedef jboolean (JNICALL* PJAWT_GetAWT) (JNIEnv*, JAWT*); // Function pointer
JAWT jawt;
JAWT_DrawingSurface* jds;
JAWT_DrawingSurfaceInfo* jdsi;
JAWT_Win32DrawingSurfaceInfo* jdsi_win;
HANDLE hAWT;
HWND hwnd;
jboolean result;
PJAWT_GetAWT JAWT_GetAWT;
LPTSTR buf;
jclass sys;
jmethodID home;
jstring ret;
// This section of code is needed in order to find jawt.dll
sys = (*env)->FindClass (env, "java/lang/System");
home = (*env)->GetStaticMethodID (env, sys, "getProperty", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;");
ret = (jstring)(*env)->CallStaticObjectMethod(env, sys, home, (*env)->NewStringUTF (env, "java.home"));
buf = (LPTSTR)(*env)->GetStringUTFChars (env, ret, NULL);
strcat (buf, "\\bin\\jawt.dll");
hAWT = LoadLibrary ((LPCTSTR)buf);
if (!hAWT) return;
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result = JAWT_GetAWT (env, &jawt);
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jds->FreeDrawingSurfaceInfo (jdsi);
jds->Unlock(jds);
jawt.FreeDrawingSurface (jds);
(*env)->ReleaseStringUTFChars (env, ret, buf);
}Note that you must include jawt_md.h as that's where all the types such as JAWT are declared. You can link statically with jawt.lib, but as it is dangerous to assume the JRE version on the user's system, it's probably a better idea to link dynamically and handle any errors that occur.
Hope that helps.
Cheers -
Firefox windows, always on top ?
Since my upgrade to Leopard my browser windows are always on top, even when I open the dashboard widgets. So I can't see half of them.
The window will be grey [inactive] but refuses to disappear to the background and make room for my desktop or whatever window I want to see. Only minimize will make it disappear. Firefox has been updated to the latest version, so that is not the problem.
Anybody ?I've been having this problem for the last few days and it's driving me insane. I read that if you disable the 'show downloads window' in the preferences, the problem seems to go away. This is not the case for me. I have restarted, etc. but the dang thing keeps doing it and I can't figure out the trigger.
Any other ideas? I'm seriously considering switching to the 3 Beta, but I don't want to lose the few add-ons I use.
Thanks! -
Snow Leapord - Where has the "Always on Top" feature gone?
I like to have my ichat windows stay always on top, but after upgrading to the new snow leapord, I have no clue where this feature has gone. Any help?
Did you have Chax installed in Leopard.
http://www.ksuther.com/chax/ -
Hi all,
I've got a lovely HTA that is intended to be displayed on all our users screens at Windows startup, as defined by a GPO. While everything is working fine, I'd really like to have it as an "always on top" window or at least grab focus/flash whenever somebody clicks away.
Every forum thread I've found via Google says this is not possible, but other people have found 'hacks' to get this to work. Various people mention either modal/modeless dialogues or using an onblur function. Unfortunately, as a self taught 'coder', my VBS/HTA powers are fairly weak and I don't really know how to put this into practice.
Would anybody be able to give me some guidance on how I could possibly launch the HTA and retain focus or keep it above other windows somehow?
Cheers
AndyYou need a Third-party application
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html 32 or 64 bit version
put nircmdc.exe in your path or in the folder with hta file,
now use this sample .hta
<!========================================================================
<!
<! NAME: RusiaToday.hta
<!
<! REVISION:
<!
<! AUTHOR: Emprear / gc.gianello[dot]gmail.com
<!
<! DATE : 15/02/2013 09:03:38
<!
<! COMMENT:
<! Rusia Today en Español
<! Canal Internacional de Noticias
<!
<!======================================================================-->
<!
<html>
<head>
<title>RusiaToday</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.resizeTo(470,300);
var intHorizontal = screen.width;
var intVertical =screen.height;
var left_pos = (intHorizontal - 470) / 2;
var top_pos = (intVertical - 300) / 2;
window.moveTo(left_pos,top_pos);
</script>
<HTA:APPLICATION
ID="RusiaToday"
APPLICATIONNAME="RusiaToday"
BORDER="Dialog"
BORDERSTYLE="Normal"
CAPTION="yes"
CONTEXTMENU="no"
INNERBORDER="no"
MAXIMIZEBUTTON="no"
MINIMIZEBUTTON="no"
ICON = "http://actualidad.rt.com/favicon.ico"
SCROLL="no"
SELECTION="no"
SHOWINTASKBAR="yes"
SINGLEINSTANCE="yes"
SYSMENU="yes"
WINDOWSTATE="Normal"
>
<script type="text/javascript">
function ontop(){
if ((document.getElementById('wtop').innerHTML) == 'notop') {
document.getElementById('wtop').innerHTML = 'top';
new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell").Run('%comspec% /C nircmdc win settopmost title RusiaToday 0',0,true);
}else{
document.getElementById('wtop').innerHTML = 'notop';
new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell").Run('%comspec% /C nircmdc win settopmost title RusiaToday 1',0,true);
</script>
<style type="text/css">
html, body{
padding: 0;
border: none;
margin: 0;
overflow: hidden;
object#rto{
margin: 0;
border: none: padding: 0;
left: 0;
top: 0
z-index: 1;
button#wtop{
top: 1%;
right: 1%;
z-index: 999;
width:38px;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 2px 4px;
/*]]>*/
</style>
</head>
<body style="background:#1E1D11">
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://actualidad.rt.com/static/jwplayer/player.swf" id="rto" height='274' width='470'>
<param name="movie" value="http://actualidad.rt.com/static/jwplayer/player.swf" />
<param name="loop" value="false" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<param name="play" value="true" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name='allowfullscreen' value='true'>
<param name='allowscriptaccess' value='always'>
<param name="flashvars" value="&autostart=true&backcolor=0x000000&bandwidth=1016&controlbar=over&file=RT_Spanish_2&frontcolor=0xffffff&image=http%3A%2F%2Factualidad.rt.com%2Fstatic%2Fvideo-player-bg.png&lightcolor=0xffffff&mute=false&plugins=viral-2d&screencolor=0x404040&skin=http%3A%2F%2Factualidad.rt.com%2Fstatic%2Fjwplayer%2Fplayer_skin.zip&streamer=rtmp%3A%2F%2Frt.fms.visionip.tv%2Flive%3Fautostart%3Dtrue&viral.onpause=false"
/>
<param name="bgcolor" value="#1E1D11" />
</object>
<button onclick="ontop();" id="wtop">top</button>
</body>
</html>
Look at the ontop() function and how alternate top and notop status using nircmdc command line utilitiy
Thats all
Regards -
Tilda in awesome always on top
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to get a good working terminal in awesome that looks transparent and doesn't conflict with workspaces in such a way that it's always on top.
Currently I'm using tilda which seems to work fine untill the point of switching workspaces and being on top of everything.
Is there any way to change this?
I already tried installing gnome-terminal to be my terminal for awesome but for some reason I can't get it to be transparent. I've tried using devilspie2 to make it transparent but couldn't get it to work.
I've installed the AUR version of gnome terminal with transparency but that also wouldn't work.
Could someone point me into the right direction, either by telling me how to make tilda respond correctly to awesome or by telling me how to get my gnome-terminal to be transparent?
EDIT: I'm at the point of thinking about using a different window manager and or desktop environment. If I can't get this to work I'll probably go with openbox.
Last edited by SimbaClaws (2015-01-27 20:29:51)Maybe you need a composite manager to have transparency. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rx … ansparency https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Composite
Maybe you could use urxvt instead. And maybe you could use http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Drop-down_terminal, if you find a solution working with awesome 3.5. -
when i use firefox 3.5.9 and then make it always on top of other windows even if i minimize the window for a short period to check another window and then re maximize it firefox still remembers the stay on top setting.
but with version 3.6.3 if i set it always on top and then minimize and then maximise it forgets this setting and will be like any regular window. so how can i fix this. (every other windows program remembers the setting like firefox 3.5.9 but firefox 3.6.3 is a strange exception)When I restarted in safe mode, the firefox window was no longer stuck on top. Restarted again (firefox was set to "show my windows and tabs from last time" for both restarts) in regular mode and it stayed fixed. Maybe just a restart where "show my windows and tabs from last time" is firefox start up setting would fix stuck on top problem?
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"Show Desktop" bug forces any program windows to be stuck "Always-on-top"
What I found under Windows 7, when you use the "Show Desktop" feature (I prefer the ⊞ Win + D shortcut) and then bring all windows back by using it again, some windows behave as if they're glued to the front of the z-order. What this means is, say, I have windows
A B and C open, with focus on A, hit ⊞ Win +D twice, and now it may happen that if I then want to switch to B or C, either by Alt+Tab or by selecting them on the taskbar, the taskbar shows the highlight, but A stays visible (and usable, it's not just a rendering
issue) in the foreground.
Imagine the following situations, all three windows cascading and overlapping:
A (focus)
B
C
-> ⊞ Win + D
Desktop (focus)
-> ⊞ Win + D
A (focus)
B
C
-> click C on taskbar
A
C (focus)
B
-> click B on taskbar
A
B (focus)
C
And so on. Focus means actual input focus, i.e. in second situation, any keyboard typing is sent to window B while window A is in the foreground.
It does not matter what kind of application; in my current case an instance of Outlook and an instance of Explorer is stuck, while a second instance of Explorer and an instance of Firefox behave normally. This should show that this problem can occur even between
multiple instances of the same application, and that there are no fancy applications involved that like to pretend they are the most important program and internally force "always on top".
Showing and unshowing the desktop again doesn't help; in the worst case another window might end up with the "glued to the top of the z-order" too. Between those, I can easily switch, but in order to get a window which still behaves normally on top, I have
to manually minimize the offending windows.
The only cure seems to close the offending windows so far, I've not found anything else that helps.
Could it be that Windows 7 has a bug that can force an ALWAYS_ON_TOP flag
onto some windows when restoring from "Show Desktop", or am I doing something wrong?
More information from another user:
I use win+d. Issue easy to replicate, Win7-64bit-Ultimate.
The affected windows (any program) seem to be placed into a separate "Z" group. You can place multiple/many windows into this always-on-top state, those in the affected state will function normally in relation to each other with the exception that: - The group
as a whole is always-on-top of any non-affected window - The whole group is on top of the taskbar. - The whole group does not respond to (context on taskbar) "cascade windows" or similar commands.
The fact that the affected windows are on top of the taskbar and otherwise function as "special windows" shows that windows 7 has a hidden "feature" of always-on-top that gets applied with Win+D. The feature appears to place windows in a super window state
that is on top of the taskbar. The normal group remaining behind the taskbar. (When you click the start menu or context menu of the taskbar, the start menu/taskbar comes to the foreground of the always-on-top group, however this does not revert the affected
windows, only a temporary takeover until you switch to something other than the start menu/taskbar)
This is key to finding an answer. How do we get windows to unassign the special status or not do the assignment in the first place?It appeared to have cleared by closing all windows and restarting. Initially I could not reproduce the error, then after opening all my working windows, I did indeed reproduce it on any window.
I almost think it could be initialized with something to do with multiple windows of Chrome, and then the show desktop problem will crop up once one window has it. This was because: After messing around some more with a chrome session saver (session buddy)
and restoring sessions and getting the super state, I restored and closed the window I was in and now I am again at a place where I can not reproduce the error, even in my "work environment" with some 35 chrome tabs in two windows, plus other programs, file
locations, remote desktops and a second chrome profile with another dozen tabs.
So, back to square one with finding the actual instigator of the super state phenomenon.
Once you actually have the super sate issue, the following will reproduce:
Ok, I am doing this as I type it:
Open chrome (to view this website), then Notepad, then Calculator, (could be any windows, but for the purpose of demonstration, follow along with me)
The windows should function normally, overlap your windows so that you can see the edge of all windows and the Z-order is (from front to back):the browser on top, then the calculator, then Notepad (you should be able to see part of the background windows).
Now, with the browser on top, press win+d, then win+d again.
Click on Calculator, then your browser, your browser is now stuck in the foreground. Clicking on notepad will bring the focus to notepad, and it will be in front of the calculator, yet it will stay behind the browser, as your browser is in "super state". (many
arrangements of switching focus after returning from win+d will create the problem, with the exeption of clicking the desktop, I also noticed that I could not get calculator into super state unless it overlapped my chrome browser).
Again, this does not seem to work until at least one of your windows is affected. We do not know how to get the initial window, only subsequent ones.
I will post back if I find anything else.
Let me know if there is anything that develops. -
How to keep toolbar in Photoshop CS5 always on top
I have just upgraded to CS5 from CS3. In CS5, when I move an open document around on screen it covers over the toolbar, but only if the toolbar is docked to the side of window. It will also cover the property bar and menu bar at the top of the interface. The palettes on the r/h side always stay on top if not docked to the edge of the window, but if docked they too get covered over. In CS3 all the interface items stayed on top. Is there any way to make sure they is always on top when docked (I prefer not to have them free floating)?
I'm using Vista Ultimate. My monitor is a Dell 24" Ultrasharp running at native 1920x1200 res.Thanks for the suggestion. Turning OpenGL off makes no difference, and with it turned on I have also tried the three different quality settings, none of which made any difference either.
I've also just tried with CS5 in a window, rather than fully maximised, and like that I can actually drag an open image right outside the Photoshop interface!
Dave
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