Keep the clock above the taskbar after the shell raises itself - #159
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Topmost windows share a single z-order band, so clicking the taskbar or opening Start moves those shell windows above the clock and Windows never puts it back. Reassert the clock's place in the band on the existing clock tick, which also covers the raises that change no foreground window, like an auto-hide taskbar sliding up. Closes #154
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Closes #154, and the same scenario reported in #72 (item 2) and #20.
Topmost windows all share one z-order band, so clicking the taskbar or opening Start moves the shell to the front of it, and WPF never puts the clock back because it only reapplies the z-order when
Topmostchanges. This reasserts the clock's place in the band on the tick that already runs every second, guarded on Stay on top being enabled and the window being visible.A
SetWinEventHookforeground listener was tried first and removed: measured on its own it failed every check, because its reassert is undone as the foreground switch completes, so the timer was doing all the work anyway.