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

[Sean McBride]

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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