"Find In Files progress..." box will not hide

Erik Olson

On v8.8.5. As title, the “Find In Files progress…” box upon doing a search in files will not hide, always being stuck on top of all other windows. Worth noting that this is not the case on an installation of v8.5.6 I have on another computer.

Possibly something to do with high dpi? Old W10 computer with v8.5.6 is at 100% scaling whereas this new W11 computer with v8.8.5 is at 150% scaling.

See same/similar issue at:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/10887/hide-find-in-files-progress-dialog-box
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/11390/search-in-files-progress-window-make-background

Coises

@Erik-Olson said in "Find In Files progress..." box will not hide:

On v8.8.5. As title, the “Find In Files progress…” box upon doing a search in files will not hide, always being stuck on top of all other windows. Worth noting that this is not the case on an installation of v8.5.6 I have on another computer.

Possibly something to do with high dpi? Old W10 computer with v8.5.6 is at 100% scaling whereas this new W11 computer with v8.8.5 is at 150% scaling.

I can reproduce — Windows 10 here, not high DPI.

Based on the topics you linked, it sounds like this was a problem that was once fixed and then regressed. So far, I found it not occurring in 8.6.6 but happening in 8.7.7.

I’ll see if I can track it to a particular change. I’m a bit surprised I never noticed this, and that no one appears to have complained since the apparent regression sometime after 8.6.6 (2024-05-10).

Edit to add:

This changed between 8.6.7 (2024-05-13) and 8.6.8 (2024-06-04). In 8.6.7 I observed a different problem: the progress dialog could get hidden behind the Find in Files dialog if focus left the Notepad++ application and then returned to it. Possibly fixing that problem and introducing this one were related.

Edit to add more:

The cause is surely this line:

::SetWindowPos(_hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, xWindow, yWindow, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_SHOWWINDOW);

which was new as part of Commit 9c1f972: Add new dpi support to Find in Files Progress window.

While this explains the cause, I doubt the fix is as simple as changing HWND_TOPMOST to HWND_TOP.

Erik Olson

@Coises Thank you for the information. It is not happening on 8.6.6 on my machine either. I will stick with this version for the time being.