Floating dialog will not come to the front when Develop, Book or Print modules are active

Question

I have a plugin that I'm developing and I'm using a floating dialog. When LrC has either the Library, Map, Slideshow or Web module active, the floating dialog can be brought to the front by clicking on it from the Windows Task bar. The floating dialog will not come to the front when Develop, Book or Print are active. Is there a trick to this? Is there something that I'm missing? Is it as designed? Or is it a bug? Code is local profileDialog = {
  title = "Metadata Settings",
  contents = dialogLayout,
  resizable = false,
  save_frame = 'MetadataSettingsPosition',
  blockTask = true,
  windowWillClose = closeDialog,
  background_color = LrColor( "gray" ),
}

LrDialogs.presentFloatingDialog( _PLUGIN, profileDialog ) Does anyone know?

johnrellis · Accepted Answer

I see the same issue on Windows (but not Mac) with the floating dialogs in my Any Crop plugin. Floating dialogs have a number of rough edges, e.g. there's no way to keep them disappearing under the main window -- I tell users to adjust their window sizes so the Any Crop window peeks behind the main window. Also, on Windows when in Window > Screen Mode > Full Screen, the floating dialog never comes to the front:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-sdk-floating-dialogs-always-in-back-never-in-front-in-screen-mode-gt-full-screen-on-windows/idi-p/15360555

I generally try to stay away from floating dialogs now.

drtonyb · Answer

@johnrellis  Thanks John, that looks like a bug in Windows then.

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