Fences should always be on top of other windows when opened

Hello,

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AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

Thank you.

Then you need to talk to Microsoft if you want the z-order of their GUI changed.  It is Redmond who decided from Day One of the Windows OS to have desktop icons at the level BELOW any open windows.

Fences works with the OS icons AT THE LEVEL determined by Microsoft. 

There are other programs available that can have icons added ABOVE open windows...because they too are effectively windows that change level with focus...ie 'Docks'.

Fences by definition won't focus above a window....;)

First, I didn't ask for MS Windows to be implemented differently, but for Fences.

Second, I guess we can leave that decision to the Fences devs.

Third, before trying to smartass somebody the next time, make sure you have actually understood what that person has been saying.

I understand entirely.  What I am attempting to impart is that the only way Fences can put the icons on top of a window is if Microsoft had created the OS that way.  Fences works at the level that Microsoft put their icons.

If you want Fences to have icons at a different level you actually will have to request the icon level change be implimented by Microsoft.

The Fences Devs cannot change the original Icon layer level, certainly not without dramatic change to the OS causing all sorts of click-through events making the Interface unworkable.

If you understand that Fences is working with Microsoft's OS icons you should also understand that Fences MUST be at that level, and can never be above the open Windows....;)

I would also like the ability to have the option to have Fences be able to stay on top. I have an ultra wide screen and I have plenty of real estate to the left and the right of my screen. I would like to be able to have my most used icons always on top or at least appear over the other windows when I do a mouse over so I don't have to minimize the other windows I'm working with.  The program AIMP (which is a music player), screen-shotted below can stay on top of everything, even full screen applications such as games (so if you want to play music while gaming and change tracks and such), which means that there is a way to do this in Windows, despite how Microsoft programmed Windows out of the box. After all, the reason we bought Object Desktop (which includes Fences) is because we wanted to augment or alter the way our operating system handles the desktop experience. We are all running personal computers after all..

No, there isn't, not with Microsoft's Desktop Icons.  Nothing can put them ontop of an open window.

This is a fundamental Windows limitation.

Desktop Icons are NOT anything even remotely like a Media Player...;)