Am 21.05.2016 um 23:50 schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>:
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:13:54AM +0200, pdv wrote:
>> If one has 2 documents open in LyX 2.2 in 2 separate windows and one wants
>> to bring the one in the back to the front via the menu View/Hidden/... then
>> (on a mac, OSX 10.11.4) nothing happens. Although the window has been
>> activated, it's not brought to the front. [When switching to e.g. the Finder
>> and then back to LyX by clicking on the LyX icon in the Dock, the hidden
>> window will now be shown in front.]
>>
>> The problem is solved by adding a raise() call to the activateWindow() call
>> in GuiView.cpp (see included patch).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> P. De Visschere
>
>> diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp
>> index c2101f3..89bff9a 100644
>> --- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp
>> +++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiView.cpp
>> @@ -3615,6 +3615,7 @@ void GuiView::dispatch(FuncRequest const & cmd,
>> DispatchResult & dr)
>> for (; i != ids.size(); ++i) {
>> GuiView & gv = guiApp->view(ids[i]);
>> if (gv.workArea(*buffer)) {
>> + gv.raise();
>> gv.activateWindow();
>> gv.setBuffer(buffer);
>> break;
>
> Since this part of the code is contained in "case LFUN_BUFFER_SWITCH"
> and is only reached if there are multiple views, I think it could go
> in for 2.2.0.
>
> Let's see if anyone else has an opinion, otherwise I will test on Linux
> and commit it before rc2.
You may consider to cherry-pick change 5f368aec7b3206c873c94294def906911523dc8e.
Stephan
