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

[Michael Schlottke]

Hi Pat,

If I do that, I get an error "The application cannot be opened because its executable is missing.". When I have a look at the Info.plist file, it contains the lines

<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>paraview</string>

and <builddir>/bin/paraview.app/Contents/MacOS has a "paraview" executable. Any idea what the reason could be?

Michael

P.S.: As I already noted on "Paraview-developers] Problems with protobuf when loading self-compiled plugin on OS X", I cannot use "make install" to create a working app bundle in the /Applications directory. If I use "make install", I *am* able to start ParaView using the "open" command, but then I buy this convenience with losing the ability to use my own plugins. I don't know if this makes a difference or not - as far as I understand from the ParaView build wiki, I should be able to use ParaView without using "make install"

On May 30, 2013, at 22:12 , Pat Marion wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> 
> That's a standard behavior of MacOSX.  If you start the application with "open bin/paraview.app" then the window will appear on top.
> 
> Pat
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Michael Schlottke <m.schlottke at aia.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
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