[Paraview] ParaView 4.0.0-RC2 starts behind current window on OS X Lion (10.7.5)

[Michael Schlottke]

Hi Sean,

Ok, so that means there is no way to run it in the foreground without having an app bundle? The problem is, that somehow I get an

"The application cannot be opened because its executable is missing."

error even though the executable is there AND the Info.plist file is identical to another app bundle that does work. Any ideas where else to look for the problems?

Michael

On May 31, 2013, at 17:27 , Sean McBride wrote:

> On Thu, 30 May 2013 16:38:32 +0200, Michael Schlottke said:
> 
>> I installed ParaView 4.0.0-RC2 on my Macbook by compiling it from
>> source. When I start ParaView from command line, it always disappears
>> behind the active window. Does anyone know how to fix this, so that when
>> ParaView is started, it will be the application at the very front of my
>> screen? Please note that is not started "hidden" (i.e. only in the
>> dock), but the window actually uses the full screen  - it's just not
>> visible and you have to use Cmd-Tab to get to it.
> 
> That sounds like the kind of behaviour that occurs when a command line application tries to show a GUI.  You see similar with many VTK unit tests.  On OS X, the only supported way to show a GUI (NSWindow, NSView, etc.) is to do so from a .app bundled application.  Is your ParaView build as a .app or just a plain executable?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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