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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Reference
Stacking Order
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Description
Stacking order is the relative order of windows displayed on the screen in
terms of depth.
Figure 65. Manual and Automatic Stacking Order.
When to Use
- Required
- Provide automatic stacking order to allow the user to have windows moved
to the top of the stacking order when they become active.
- Recommended
- Provide manual stacking order to allow the user to have windows remain in
the current stacking order when they become active.
Guidelines
- Required
- Make automatic stacking order the default stacking order.
- Required
- Allow the user to choose which stacking order to use.
- Required
- When multiple windows are stacked on the screen and a window in the
automatic stacking order gains focus, raise the window and all of its
associated windows to the top of the window stack.
- Required
- When using automatic stacking order, place a window on top of all other
windows and make it the active window when the user does the following:
- Selects an object in the window
- Selects the title bar or window border of that window
- Uses keyboard navigation to warp the pointer to the window
- Invokes a new window
- Required
- When using manual stacking order, place a window on top of all other
windows and make it the active window when the user does the following:
- Selects the title bar or window border of that window
- Explicitly raises the window by an internal keyboard or mouse button
binding
- Invokes a new window
Essential Related Topics
For more information, see the Input Focus, Window Frame, and Window
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