Reveal hidden messages

[mjc_design]

Hi

Something that's bugged me for years in Inventor, is when a message (such as "do you want to check out xxxx") gets hidden behind the Inventor window sometimes. Inventor is that there waiting for me to do something, but the button I need to press is hidden. Does anyone know how to bring these messages to the front if they get stuck behind the IV window?

Thanks

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

Try Alt Tab, but you have to know they are there.

[Anonymous]

Alt-Tab doesn't work for me in this scenario.  I only have one Inventor window showing and the dialogue does not pop to the front when I alt-tab.  I set dialogue boxes to pop up on the second monitor thru NVIDIA settings, but that doesn't help either.  I only catch a brief glimpse of what it was when I hit enter.  (Escape just cancels.)  Does anyone have any other ideas?

[JDMather]

What version of Windows?

Can you post Screenast Recording of what you see?

[Anonymous]

There's nothing much to see.  If I do nothing, nothing happens.  If I hit enter, the checkout part? dialogue flashes briefly as if it had been there all along and was just closing.

Windows 7 Professional SP1, Dell Precision T3500 64-bit  OS

Inventor 2017

Vault Professional 2017 Build 22.1.2.0 2017.0.1

[Anonymous]

I often run into the same problem. From my programming background I see it is a software issue. It's not impossible to keep a window on top of everything, but you have to write your application to do so. Look at the Windows Task Manager : it is impossible to cover.

Cycling through applications with Alt-Tab will bring the dialogue in view, but not always. If it fails I go through minimising all the other windows until the dialogue is the last one standing.

Alex