Arguments: configuration
Returns (or sets with setf) whether the optional IDE background window is displayed. This window is useful mostly for covering other applications that may be distracting when they "peek through" the IDE's project style interface, which has no main parent window.
The background window also has a right-button shortcut menu that lists all current IDE windows that aren't shrunk (hidden). Selecting a window on this menu brings the window to the front and gives it the keyboard focus.
This property may be toggled interactively by selecting the View | Background Window menu command.
Changing this property while the IDE is running will toggle the background window off or on. When the IDE is started up, the background window will appear if it was there whenever the configuration options were most recently saved.
use-ide-background-window is a property of the configuration class.
Common Graphics and IDE documentation is described in About Common Graphics and IDE documentation in cgide.htm.
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