"Mike Williams" <mik### [at] nospamplease> wrote in message
news:diq### [at] econymdemoncouk...
> Wasn't it Redbeard (MDJohnson) who wrote:
...
> >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.
>
> This effect is new with beta 7. Previous released versions and previous
> betas to refrained from opening the render window when the application
> is minimised.
>

Hmmm... hadn't really noticed, but I believe you're right.  Of course, it *does*
happen with a lot of other apps which try to impress upon you that they know
better than you what you wish to be doing. ;)

Michael

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