Joost Rekveld

don't know whether this is a known problem:

when I make an application in max, and if the application opens a 

window of its own, like a jit.window (apart from the status and main 

patcher window), then I have trouble to activate it on my desktop.

Somehow it's hard to pin it down, but what happens is that I click on 

a window of the application-made-with-max/msp, but the window does 

not come to front and keyboard focus stays with the previous 

application I was working in. Sometimes in this limbo the window of 

my application-made-with-max/msp does seem to react to mouse clicks, 

sometimes not. The only way to properly activate my application-made- 

with-max/msp is to go in the Dock and select the main window of my 

Does this sound familiar or should I investigate and try to isolate 

It gets annoying because I use several different applications I made 

with max, and I switch between them and quicktime viewer, final cut 

when I make an application in max, and if the application opens a  
window of its own, like a jit.window (apart from the status and main  
patcher window), then I have trouble to activate it on my desktop.
Somehow it's hard to pin it down, but what happens is that I click on  
a window of the application-made-with-max/msp, but the window does  
not come to front and keyboard focus stays with the previous  
application I was working in. Sometimes in this limbo the window of  
my application-made-with-max/msp does seem to react to mouse clicks,  
sometimes not. The only way to properly activate my application-made- 
with-max/msp is to go in the Dock and select the main window of my  
application there.

Does this sound familiar or should I investigate and try to isolate  
the problem more ?
It gets annoying because I use several different applications I made  
with max, and I switch between them and quicktime viewer, final cut  
etc all the time...

mac OS 10.4.8 on a 2x 2.66 Ghz mac Pro
maxmsp 4.6.2 jitter 1.6.3b1

application-ui-focus

> Does this sound familiar or should I investigate and try to isolate the 

It sounds like the "all winows active" flag is set. Are you able to 

bring the window to the front if you click on the window bar?

Joost Rekveld wrote:
> Does this sound familiar or should I investigate and try to isolate  the 
> problem more ?

It sounds like the "all winows active" flag is set. Are you able to 
bring the window to the front if you click on the window bar?

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