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If I - use the "Find in Files" dialog - do a search, which makes the Find in Files dialog go away and displays the Search Results dialog - click on Modify Search, which makes the Search Results dialog go away and shows the Find in Files dialog again - do a search (in simple terms, used Modify Search to do a second search) then the Search Results dialog is shown behind the IDE frame. I'm using Windows 2000. The Search window appears to come up at location (0,0) so, if the IDE frame is maximized or located at (0,0) then the Search Results window is not visiable at all.
This issue may be platform dependent so I restore attributes Platform and OS to their original values (I was too eager to change them to "All"). I tried it with combination Solaris 8 @ Sparc, CDE 1.4. The only difference was that the Search Results window did not go away when I clicked the Modify Search button. It just went behind the NetBeans' main window (I use MDI) at the moment the Find in Files dialog appeared. The CDE was set as follows: - point in window to make active a.k.a. focus follows mouse = true - raise window when made active = false (covered windows may have focus) When I toggled the settings, the windows behaved better: The Search Results dialog was covered by the main window after the Modify Search button was pressed (and the Find in Files dialog appeared). But it was sent to the front after criteria in the Find in Files dialog were confirmed. Again, the Search Results dialog did not go away when the Modify Search button was pressed. So the behaviour depends on the window manager used and changes as its settings are modified. But it should work for Windows and should be fixed in NB 4.0.
I haven't changed anything in the Utilities module and the problem got away in the development builds. It seems to have been caused by bug #33480 - "[MDI] Fronting a dialog fronts the main window". Note: Bug #33480 has been resolved as a duplicate of bug #34670 - "Main window fronted when property sheet in options window creates a modal dialog." *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 33480 ***