Weird window behavior when switching between applications????

When I switch between two applications, the other window disappears. This is annoying if I am trying to copy text from say, textedit, to another application like mail or Excel. When I switch to the mail app, the textedit window disappears. And when I switch to textedit, the mail window disappears. I have to keep going to the Dock to get to the other window.
I did not think this was always the case. Is there a setting I am missing? I really think I was able to see both a textedit window AND an Excel or Mail window at the same time. Please help

Do you have any third-party extensions installed? I googled and found several that will perform this auto-hide action: Quitling, App Presto, AutoHide, and DragThing are some of them.

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i'd changed a little bite your code. Cause if you set the line color to transparent, the legend must also be transparent. So, I think that you can't go that way.
See my approach.
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> When switching between open tabs a sequence of
javascript errors occurs. I
> had
> not used Dreamweaver for about 2 weeks, and last time I
used it with no
> problems.
>
> I have tried uninstalling it, OKing removal of all files
when asked,
> re-installing it and updating with dwmx61_updater.exe,
but I still get the
> same
> errors.
>
> This has rendered the software virtually unuseable, so
any help would be
> greatly appreciated, as I'm working to a
rapidly-approaching deadline.
>
>
> "While executing Browse_Back enabled in toolbars.xml, a
JavaScript error
> occurred"
> followed by
> "While executing Browse_Forward enabled in toolbars.xml,
a JavaScript
> error
> occurred"
> followed by
> "While executing Browse_Stop enabled in toolbars.xml, a
JavaScript error
> occurred"
>
> The relevant code seems to be :
>
> 
>
> <toolbar id="Browser_Toolbar" platform="win"
label="Browser
> Navigation"
> container="document" initiallyVisible="false">
>
> <button id="Browse_Back"
> image="Toolbars/images/MM/back.gif"
> disabledImage="Toolbars/images/MM/back_dis.gif"
> tooltip="Back"
> label="Back"
>
enabled="dw.getDocumentDOM().browser.isCmdEnabled('back')"
> command="dw.getDocumentDOM().browser.backPage()"
> update="onEveryIdle"/>
>
> <button id="Browse_Forward"
> image="Toolbars/images/MM/forward.gif"
> disabledImage="Toolbars/images/MM/forward_dis.gif"
> tooltip="Forward"
> label="Forward"
>
enabled="dw.getDocumentDOM().browser.isCmdEnabled('forward')"
> command="dw.getDocumentDOM().browser.forwardPage()"
> update="onEveryIdle"/>
>
> <button id="Browse_Stop"
> image="Toolbars/images/MM/stop.gif"
> disabledImage="Toolbars/images/MM/stop_dis.gif"
> tooltip="Stop"
> label="Stop"
> enabled="dw.getDocumentDOM().browser.getPageBusy()"
> command="dw.getDocumentDOM().browser.stopPage()"
> update="onBrowserPageBusyChange"/>
>
> <button id="Browse_Refresh"
> image="Toolbars/images/MM/browserRefresh.gif"
> tooltip="Refresh"
> label="Refresh"
> enabled="true"
> command="dw.getDocumentDOM().browser.refreshPage()"/>
>
>
>
> presumably the next error is caused by the previous ones
failing :
>
> "While executing getCurrentValue in AddressURL.htm, a
JavaScript error
> occurred"
> the relevan tcode :
>
>
> function getCurrentValue()
> {
> var dom = dw.getDocumentDOM();
> var value = dom.browser.getURL();
> if (value && value.length)
> {
> //check if is it not a temp file
> //extract the tail of the url
> var filename = value;
> var slashIndex = filename.lastIndexOf("/");
> filename = filename.substring(slashIndex+1);
> var tempIndex = filename.indexOf("TMP");
> if (tempIndex != 0)
> {
> addRecentAddress(value);
> }
> }
> return value;
> }
>
>

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