Not sure if it's a bug, but it's irritating!

[j.w.]

Using v 1.6.1 64bit for OSX (01.06.01.0625 eng (x86_64), when I have undocked PixInsight process menus up (say ImageCalibration) and I click on another OS X app on the OS X dock to bring it forward - the process menu remains visible on the screen even though PixInsight disappears behind the newly active OS X application.  This forces me to go back to PixInsight and do the more formal "Hide Pixnsight CMD-H" to hide the process menu as well.  Yes, I should know by now that I can't hide PixInsight this way - but old habits are hard to break!

John

[Juan Conejero]

Hi John,

I understand your irritation. Unfortunately, Mac OS X has some peculiarities and idiosyncrasies that don't make things very easy for development of cross-platform applications. Porting some aspects of PixInsight's workspace to Mac OS X is a continuous fight. I am always working to integrate PI with Mac OS X more smoothly, but there are some parts of the GUI where I still have to work a lot. This is one of them.

Unfortunately, if I implement PI's process tool windows as floating windows on Mac OS X (a special OS X window class that disappears automatically when the application loses the focus), then I lose some functionality that is needed. So I have to implement tools as dialogs, which don't disappear automatically. In the next version, I'll implement a routine to hide all tools when the application is inactive. Maybe I'll port this routine to the rest of platforms too, so all of them will benefit from the 'Mac way'

Fortunately, you can use Cmd+H as a workaround. Sorry for the inconvenience once more.

[j.w.]

Thanks Juan.  In the meantime, I'll continue to re-educate myself to use Cmd-H!