"Mike Williams" <mik### [at] nospamplease> wrote in message
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> Wasn't it N Shomber who wrote:
> >If multiple files are queued (re-rendering insert menu, animations or just
> >multiple files), whenever a new file is started, it is shown on the desktop
> >(normal render window) when the editor window is showing just the messages.
> >With all different settings on Options|Render Window menu.  This is fine
> >except that it shows up even when the main POVray window is minimized.  This
> >happens in both the normal and the VCC versions.  After and while the
> >picture is being rendered, the only way to return the editor window is to
> >either right click the taskbar icon and click restore, or to close the
> >render window first.
>
> I confirm this. POV 3.5b7, W98se, AMDK6 500, 128 Mb.
>
> It's annoying when I've got POV running minimised as a background task
> and I'm just about to wipe out the Treeclop Homeworld, and suddenly the
> galaxy disappears and is replaced by the render window. Or when I'm
> touch-typing a Word document, and look up to discover that POV grabbed
> the active window three sentences ago.
>

I'll leave it up to Chris C or some other team member to say for sure, but I
don't really believe this is so much a render window bug as a bug in Windows
itself.  I don't know how many times similar things have happened to me because
Word or IE or almost any other program has decided to become the active window.
I tend to have umpteen applications open at once (browser loading a page, email
sitting waiting, news group software updating, POV-Ray rendering, while typing
up a doc in a word processor, etc)  When one decides to open a dialog box of
some sort, it comes to the fore.  I chalk it up to annoying Windows behavior,
but suppose there might be a fix.

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