Setup terminates prematurely

[Andreas Mohr Usenet 10/01]

lawson_whitney at juno.com wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Ian D. Stewart wrote:

>>
>> Well, I've found the problem for this one (kinda).  Part way through the
>> installation, an error dialog is displayed complaining about not enough
>> disk space.  However, the dialog was displayed behind the main dialog
>> (which, being 'blocked' by the error message, could not be moved).  I
>> was able to get at this dialog by moving the main dialog to the bottom
>> just before pressing the button that triggers the error.
>>
>> According to the Wine Trouble Shooting Guide, I am getting this error
>> because a misconfigured registry (I'll have to look into that).
>>
>> My next question: Why didn't the error dialog display on top of the main
>> dialog, they way it's supposed to?

> I guess that is what "not modal yet" means.  I wondered.
Yep, I'd say so.
I implemented that warning, BTW ! (before there was just plain void !)
Note that it could just as well easily be a window manager issue.
I do think that it's the fact that it's not modal yet, though.
Once someone fixes Wine's Z order problems (hmm, or is it already committed ?),
we can say more.

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