Modeless Dialogs May Be Clipped by Small Application Workspace

 Last reviewed: November 23, 1994
Article ID: Q68140
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows operating system versions 3.0, 3.0a

SUMMARY

If an application workspace has been resized to be quite small, any modeless dialogs that are generated by the program may be clipped by the boundaries of the workspace window, making it difficult to see or access various fields and/or buttons.

MORE INFORMATION

Modeless dialogs allow you to access the application's menu bar, tool bar, and other documents opened by the application, without closing the dialog first. This generally allows a function or command to be applied to a number of different documents. A typical use for a modeless dialog would be a spell-checker dialog, such as the one used by PowerPoint for Windows.

If modeless dialogs are implemented so that their parent window is the application window, the dialog must be contained within the boundaries of that application window. In addition, they may be implemented in such a way that they are actually treated like an open document in a MDI (multiple document interface) application, and appear under the application's Window menu along with the other open-document windows.

KBCategory: kbother
KBSubcategory: win30
Additional reference words: 3.00 win30 3.00a power point mode less

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Last reviewed: November 23, 1994
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