Author: William Penn
Date: 22:22:13 06/05/02
This problem is related to the ALT operation in html code... When you pass the mouse cursor over an image or object, a little window pops up with a brief description of the image or operation. This happens quite a lot in Windows and is an important feature in making Windows easy to use. If you don't know what an unknown button is, usually you can just move the mouse cursor over it, and a little description will popup automatically. The problem is when the popups appear BEHIND the current window. Then you don't see them, and don't even know they exist. They're invisible! This happens occasionally with my system in various applications, but not very often. It's not usually a significant problem. But it happens almost all the time with one important program that I use, and I didn't know about it til today... I installed the program a couple of weeks ago, and have had many sessions with it. During all that time, I didn't realize that it had those little popups describing the many icons/buttons. Then today they started appearing out of the blue, as if by magic. It's fairly clear that's what was happening. They were appearing all along, but just started showing up on top of the window today. Then no sooner had they appeared, they disappeared again, and I can no longer see them. (: They'll appear again someday when they get in the mood again, I guess. :) The software involved is "ChessBase Lite", which is older software, written in the days of DOS/Windows 3.1. It generally works fine on my W98se system except for this problem. It's a freeware chess database system downloadable from: http://www.chessbase.com/download/cblight/index.asp So my question is: Is there any way to make those little popups appear on top of the current window all of the time? JB³
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