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johnrellis
Legend
June 8, 2025

P: SDK: Floating dialogs always in back, never in front, in Screen Mode > Full Screen on Windows

  • June 8, 2025
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[This bug report was originally posted on 1/26/2019 in the old feedback forum, but it never got transferred here. See the attached email message.]

 

In LR 14.3.1 / Windows 11, when LR is in  Window > Screen Mode > Full Screen, floating dialogs always appear hidden in back of the main LR window, and calling the toFront() function has no effect. This prevents my Any Crop and Any Filter plugins from being used in Full Screen mode. This doesn't occur in the other screen modes, nor does it occur on Mac OS 15.5.

 

This simple plugin demonstrates the bug:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6d1l3llo5dwzzuw/floatingfullscreenbug.lrdevplugin.zip?dl=0


Simply invoke Library > Plug-in Extras > Floating Dialog in the various Screen Modes.


The command executes this simple code:

LrDialogs.presentFloatingDialog (_PLUGIN, {
    title = "Floating Fullscreen Bug",
    contents = f:push_button {title = "Push Me"},
    onShow = showErrors (function (t)
        LrTasks.startAsyncTask (showErrors (function ()
            LrTasks.sleep (5)
                t.toFront ()
                end))
            end)})

 

3 replies

johnrellis
Legend
February 22, 2026

I verified that this is fixed in LR 15.2 / Windows 11.

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 20, 2026

Greetings all,  

 

A new update for the Adobe Photography products has been released.  The February update contains an update regarding this issue. 

If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by pressing  [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

 

Thank you for being so patient.  

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 8, 2025

I've logged this @johnrellis  I will see if I can dig up the original from the previous forum and link the two. 

 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org