Installing on Mac / Select All / Maximize

[jdonald]

PixInsight Version: 1.08.03.1123
MacOS: 10.10.1

Running on a 2013 MacBook Pro 13"

Installing:
The previous major installer was a single file that I simply dragged into the Application folder, updates and everything worked fine but the latest installer is a compressed file with the entire folder structure.  Extracting work and the program runs and it tells me there are 14 updates, they download but will not install, instead giving me a unable to install updates.  Can't find required Component(s) error message.

Select All
Now, I am a windows convert, Command A selects all or Click first, hold shift, click the last will NOT work at all if your list is icons or thumbnails.  It only works if you are in list view.  I confirmed it works in finder, so the issue is within PI.  I am using the script BatchPreProcessing but it also happens in the PI Browser.

Maximize
When Maximizing the window it doesn't remain maximized, at random times PI drops behind the dock and I have to click the title bar again.

All of these could be me, the user, as I am relatively new to mac but Everything works fine on the older version that is loaded on my Mac Mini running the same OSx version.  I have not updated it yet! Its PI version is 1.08.01.1092.

Thanks
Jeff

[Juan Conejero]

Installing

Please see this thread: http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=7670.0

Command A selects all or Click first, hold shift, click the last will NOT work at all if your list is icons or thumbnails.

We haven't seen this problem, and it hasn't been reported before. However I have no Mac computer available until the end of the next week, so I can't test this right now. It is very strange though.

When Maximizing the window it doesn't remain maximized, at random times PI drops behind the dock and I have to click the title bar again.

The concept of maximized window, as it works on Windows and most X11 desktop managers, does not exist on OS X. Windows can be "zoomed", which is a completely different thing (actually, maximization means "full screen mode" on recent versions of OS X). See your operating system documentation for more information. I don't understand what you mean by "at random times PI drops behind the dock". This is something we haven't seen before. Can you further elaborate on this issue?

[jdonald]

I am coming from windows so when I say Maximized I mean that it takes up the maximum amount of Realestate without obscuring status bars. When you doublclick the program name bar at the top of a window it does this, but it randomly drops behind the dock obscuring the bottom portion of PI.  I get that it has full screen mode

Behind the Dock

Screen Shot 2015-01-04 at 11.08.39 PM by AstroJeff, on Flickr

When double clicking the title bar

Screen Shot 2015-01-04 at 11.08.54 PM by AstroJeff, on Flickr



Thanks for the reply.

[pfile]

i think the dock is always supposed to be on top of all windows. so actually if the PI window obscures the dock, that's probably the bug.

most OSX programs probably ask the window server what the size of the screen is minus the dock, or otherwise compute that size when the user asks to maximize a window. PI is built on Qt which is a cross-platform toolkit, and so there's a good chance the authors of Qt (who are not the authors of Pixinsight) are not following the OSX UI guidelines...

rob