🐛 Script Editor - Always In Foreground Over Rhino 8.19

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hi @eirannejad,

Updated to 8.19 and if the script editor is on top of the rhino window, when the rhino window is given focus, the script editor stays in the foreground still.

-Open Rhino 8.19
-Open ScriptEditor by typing ScriptEditor in CLI and hitting enter
-Place the script editor window over top of the Rhino window
-Click back into Rhino and the script editor will still be in the foreground

Thanks!

System Info

Rhino 8 SR19 2025-4-8 (Rhino 8, 8.19.25098.10001, Git hash:master @ 56a627d5dd9a45a88fe355e5fb333174634cf1e3)
License type: Commercial, build 2025-04-08
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 11 (10.0.26100 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 64GB)
.NET 7.0.20

Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [98% battery remaining]

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display: DisplayLink USB Device (DisplayLink) Memory: 0MB, Driver date: 12-18-2024 (M-D-Y).
> External USB display device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port 0
Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU (NVidia) Memory: 16GB, Driver date: 11-6-2024 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 566.14
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Video pass-through to primary display device

Secondary graphics devices.
Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 10-26-2022 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- There are no monitors attached to this device. Laptop lid is probably closed
DisplayLink USB Device (DisplayLink) Memory: 0MB, Driver date: 12-18-2024 (M-D-Y).
> External USB display device with 0 adapter port(s)
- There are no monitors attached to this device. Laptop lid is probably closed

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: Off
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 11-6-2024
Driver Version: 32.0.15.6614
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 16 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\ProgramData\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\Datasmith Rhino Exporter (d1fdc795-b334-4933-b680-088119cdc6bb)\DatasmithRhino7.rhp “Datasmith Exporter” 5.1.0.0
C:\Program Files\Enscape\Enscape.Rhino.Plugin-net48\Enscape.Rhino8.Plugin.dll “Enscape.Rhino8.Plugin” 4.2.1.88
C:\Users\micha\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\Crash\1.4.2-beta\Crash.rhp “Crash” 1.4.0.0
C:\Users\micha\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\Plug-ins\D5LiveSync (e0d5e210-02f6-4ee9-a2b0-1675e225d958)\D5Conv.rhp “D5 Live Sync for Rhino”

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.19.25098.10001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.19.25098.10001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.19.25098.10001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.19.25098.10001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.19.25098.10001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Grasshopper\GrasshopperPlugin.rhp “Grasshopper” 8.19.25098.10001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCode\RhinoCodePlugin.rhp “RhinoCodePlugin” 8.19.25098.10001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.19.25098.10001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

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Hmmm. There must have been some Eto changes. Thanks for letting me know. Will look into it

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4

Yeah. There has been some fixes to Eto window ownership which means Script Editor now stays over Rhino window (even when it does not have focus) which is expected since Rhino window is set as its Owner

If this is bothering you I can add an option to turn off this behaviour and make editor window parent-less so it goes behind

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If you could please that would be wonderful. It feels far more intutive to me to have whichever window gets clicked on come to the foreground in the event that two or more windows are overlapping. Given that Rhino is the “primary” application interface it feels odd to have it buried behind the SE as much as I love the SE haha.

Also these changes appear to be effecting the code execution where, when exiting out of a script that has eto.form(s) in it, the script editor will stay in the background visually and when i pull it up again it will have the green bar at the bottom as its “executing” still? and will be in readonly mode. To get out of this state I have to click the find/replace spyglass icon and then click it again and then it’s fine again


I’m trying to isolate the issue to capture it consistently but until then leaving that summary here. Had no issues with that this whole time until 8.19.

Thanks for your help!

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Sounds good. Here is the YT

RH-87036 Allow editor to hide behind Rhino window

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