On 19 May 2009, at 12:06 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>> There is however one little snag with this approach: when I switch >>> to >>> another app and then back to skim, the document in presentation mode >>> appears in second position, i.e., behind another document. I >>> suppose I >>> could get around that by having only my slides open in skim though. >> >> We can't control this, I don't know why Apple does this. And this is >> precisely why you can't switch apps in Presentation mode. Because in >> that case you wouldn't even see the window that's currently active, >> because the (inactive) Presentation window will cover it. > > For what it's worth, MacVim.app (http://code.google.com/p/macvim/) > has a fullscreen mode in which one can use command-tab to switch > apps without difficulty. Whatever windows the switched-to app uses > appear in front of MacVim's, and the menubar returns to visibility > as well. If multiple MacVim windows were open (say, one fullscreen > and the other not), they behave as they should. Obviously MacVim > doesn't display pdf presentations, but the point is just that there > do exist Mac apps that mix fullscreen with app-switching in a non- > buggy way. I know nothing about programming, though, so I have no > idea whether MacVim is engaged in hackery. But the example of > MacVim shows that Apple is not making proper fullscreen behavior > coupled with app-switching a general impossibility. > > -epicurus
I don't know why, but I do know that there's no function available to control which window will become main after switching to an app. Moreover, allowing other windows to move in front of other windows comes at a cost: it may just leave other windows in front of your full screen presentation without any way to move them out of the way, which I'm sure you generally won't want to have in a presentation. Skim is designed with general users in mind, not a few specific users that have some special requests. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
