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

[Felipe Bordeu Weldt]

hi I use the ParaViewSuperBuild all the time to test my plugin.

you can do something like this to bring paraview to the foreground (from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11248284/mac-os-x-bring-non-bundle-gui-applications-to-foreground-when-launched-from-t).

>$ pwd
/Users/fbordeu/ParaView/builds/ParaViewSuperBuild_bin/install/Applications/paraview.app/Contents/MacOS
>$ ./paraview 
(wait paraview to launch)
>$ osascript -e 'tell application "paraview" to activate'

Felipe

Le 1 juin 2013 à 13:27, Michael Schlottke <m.schlottke at aia.rwth-aachen.de> a écrit :

> 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,
>> 
>> --
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
>> Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
>> Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
>> 
>> 
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