Could the playback window be considered modeless? Giovanni Andreani
> On 16 Jan 2017, at 03:58, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > For the non-techie, a "modeless" window is one that you can click away from > without dismissing the window. Document windows and palettes are example of > modeless windows. As are some plugin windows. > > A long-standing irritation with Mac modeless plugin windows is that when a > dialog box pops up, the modeless window grabs focus away from the document > window. (This behavior dates back to the OSX transition and Finale 2004.) > > I recently discovered a near-trivial program change that fixes this problem > for Mac Fin2014.5 and higher. I am working on an update to my plugin suite > that fixes all of my modeless windows. (These include Mass Copy, Page Title > Copy, Copyist Helper, among others.) Using the new versions feels like > someone stopped beating me in the head. > > I have also figured out a way to solve the problem for windows I don't own. > But doing so demands a conservative approach. The list of non-owned windows > I'm willing to tickle must be short and well-defined. So far it is a list > of one: Space Systems. > > My question for the list is, other than my suite and Space Systems, what > other modeless windows would you like to be able to leave open on the > desktop but can't because of this problem? > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
