>>>>> "Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
FYI, Bennett has volunteered to help the OSX port of LyX, now that Ronald has run out of time. I asked him to post about this problem here, since I suspect that some of you may have idea about what is going on. Especially interesting is the fact that once you have given focus to a dialog, it will not have further problems. Angus, John, does that ring a bell? Bennett> I'm using lyx-1.3.4 on MacOSX, which I believe is compiled Bennett> with Qt-3.1.2. There's an annoying bug in the way some Bennett> dialogs fail to take focus sometimes but not always. Here's Bennett> my best attempt and describing what consistency there seems Bennett> to be in these failures. It would be nice to find that later qt releases fix the problem... Bennett> It mainly happens after I do a mouse click in the main Bennett> document window. If I then bring up a dialog box Bennett> (Find/Replace, Layout> Document..., etc.) it typically does Bennett> not have focus. After I've clicked on that dialog box, I can Bennett> dismiss it and call the very same one up again having it take Bennett> focus appropriately (so long as I haven't clicked anywhere on Bennett> the main document window in the meantime). Other dialog boxes Bennett> I call up still fail to take focus until I click on them, and Bennett> in that case *that* dialog box will be able to take focus, Bennett> but others won't. (Of course, after any click in the main Bennett> document window, none of these will take focus.) So you mean that only one window at a time will be able to take focus, right? Bennett> There are some exceptions to this. The File>Open... dialog Bennett> seems consistently able to grab focus no matter what else Bennett> happens, and I think File>New From Template... does as well. Bennett> (But others from the File menu, such as Print... don't.) So what's so special about our file dialogs? Bennett> Any suggestions for how to fix this? (I'm happy to be a Bennett> guinea pig.) Since you mention it, could you try latest cvs? I think the commit I just did will allow to have proper bindings (like <command>-O for File>Open...) shown in menus in LyX/Mac. Does it work? (and also with emacs binding?) JMarc
