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

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Schlottke
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? Pl

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

2013-05-30 Thread Pat Marion
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.schlot...@aia.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I installed ParaView 4.0.0-RC2 on my Macbo

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

2013-05-31 Thread 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 CFBundleExecutable paraview and /bin/paraview.app/Contents/MacOS has a "paraview" executable. Any idea what the reason c

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

2013-05-31 Thread Pat Marion
Hmm, no I don't know what would cause that. By any chance, have you set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable? If so, try unsetting that. I assume the lines you pasted from the Info.plist is just a snippet, and the file contains more than that, right? http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyLi

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

2013-05-31 Thread 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 w

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

2013-06-01 Thread Michael Schlottke
The dynamic library path is empty. Yep, the stuff I posted is just a snippet, this is the full file (minus some file type associations): http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> CFBundleDevelopmentRegion English CFBundleExec

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

2013-06-01 Thread Michael Schlottke
Hi Sean, Ok, so that means there is no way to run it in the foreground without having an app bundle? The problem is, that somehow I get an "The application cannot be opened because its executable is missing." error even though the executable is there AND the Info.plist file is identical to ano

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

2013-06-01 Thread Felipe Bordeu Weldt
hi I use the ParaViewSuperBuild all the time to test my plugin. you can do something like this to bring paraview to the foreground (from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11248284/mac-os-x-bring-non-bundle-gui-applications-to-foreground-when-launched-from-t). >$ pwd /Users/fbordeu/ParaView/buil