Icon description window will hide save dialogs, preventing further PI use

[Greg Schwimer]

I discovered this today. It caused a bit of a panic.

In short, if you open the description window of an icon and place it at the center of the PI workspace, then click File->Save Project while the description window is open, the window will stay on top of the save project dialog. This is not a problem (usually) as the Project Save dialog is relatively large and can be moved to the side. However, if you click OK to save, and the project file already exists, a dialog opens asking if you want to overwrite the existing project. The problem is that the description window prevents access to this dialog, which renders PI unusable.

My panicked experience here:

http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=10278.0

I managed to get the second dialog to come to the front by opening a different application that was smaller in size than the PI window. Having PI out of focus allowed the second dialog to be visible. By clicking on the second dialog header bar while PI is out of focus allowed me to gain access to the dialog and move it. This was the only way I found that would recover control of PI.


I'm able to reproduce this reliably.

[Juan Conejero]

Yes, I can reproduce this issue. This will be fixed in the next version, thanks for reporting.